The Craziest Plane Crash That Turned Survivors Into Cannibals

This is one of the craziest survival stories of all time. A plane crashed in the Andes and the survivors were stranded for a total of 72 days! But how did they survive the frozen wild for that long?

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[TheInfographicsShow]

I remember reading the book about it and I was really impressed by their resilience... Do you choose life or morals if you were in their position?

[finnpust]

how can people hate on them for trying to survive

[Cheskis]

Dude the story of the Chilean sheep herder who found them was definitely worth mentioning. His name was Sergio Catalan, he was with his son and when he understood the situation he threw bread and water across the river with a hopeful message. Then he rode his horse for hours to get them help. When he told police they called the rescue team to Santiago who at first didn't believe him, saying he was some drunk cowboy making up stories. He had to convince authorities his tale was real. Survivors visited him for years and some attended his funeral on 2020. He was hero, not some nameless person.

[Juan-gdnd]

I'm Uruguayan, and last year a survivor of the incident came to my school and told us all that happened, and they had agreed that if someone was to die, that person gave them permission to eat them, it was a pact between all of them.

[sanasoldiphone]

*Imagine judging them, while you're just there resting with comfortable life.*

[jeskvell]

"We'll die but we'll die trying."


A qoute that lost its meaning until Nando and Canessa said it <3

[Virru]

You can't judge until you've been in that position. Your survival instincts take over. Easy to judge while sitting on a couch

[iamrockness]

I dont judge them one bit. I would've done the same. It's live or die, and I choose to live.

[rena-pw]

The "person" who rescued them his name is Sergio Catalan who was a herdsman and was on his horse when he found Nando and Roberto. He left his kids there to go back on his horse which took him 10 hours he did not stop to get to civilization and get help. The next day Sergio and the army went back to rescue.
RIP Sergio Catalan 1929~2020.

[ClaraRodriguez]

Hi! I'm uruguayan and wanted to point something out. When the video says that Nando Parrado didn't knew that the small gesture of trading places with his friend would end up saving his life, it's because later after hitting the first mountain peak the plane broke in two *just behind that seat*, the one Nando was sitting on after giving his back seat so his friend could watch the Cordillera. If he had not, he would have flown away on his seat, and that is what happened to his friend.
Also, Roberto Canessa, who was 19 and a medical student at the time, was the first to make the cut through the human bodies so they could eat them, as he knew the human body well. He is now 66 years old and a cardiologist. He was and is saving human lives.

[tankshot]

If you werent there, then you dont have the right on condemning the acts on how they survived.

[YODAMAN]

It’s real easy to judge when you’re on the outside looking in

[Lawesp]

This is the greatest survival story ever. The sacrifice, the effort and the hope that these people managed during the most difficult situation is extraordinary.

[elmarcus]

Hello I'm from Uruguay and I had a meeting with one of the survivors where he told us the complete story.

I don't expect them to have all of the details but some important details are either wrong or missing.

One of the details he gave me about the rations was that by day 3 (I believe) they heard on the radio that the search and rescue party had found the location of the plane, so everyone started feasting on the food like there was no tomorrow. It turned out that the S&R party mistook the plane crash with another thing (I can't remember with what but they didn't have a clue where the plane actually was).


Also, a detail that they forgot to mention was that, both pilots, had made a mistake. They told the passangers that they had just flown over the city of Curicó, Chile when instruments were telling them otherwise. They mistook it with another city and thus when the survivors were trying to locate themselves, they assumed their position was elsewhere rather than where it actually was.

Another thing I remember was that when they decided to resort to eating the dead, they all had agreed that if one of them was to die, the rest could feed from the recently deceased survivor and they were to tell the story to their relatives.

Last, I recall him saying he didn't like the idea of flying on a Friday 13th, becasue he was superstitious and all.

[Ignatius]

One of the survivors lives in my city, Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, near Uruguay. He is married with children and a new life. He hates to talk about the tragedy, rarely accepts to be interviewed. But when he does he always says the same thing: there was no other way to stay alive and he had chosen to live. That's says all.

[killval]

I just can't fathom the 72 days part. That's utterly insane.

[victoriahickling]

I also survived a plane crash in 2015, crashed at 94 mph and then plane exploded after. The pilot and I both caught on fire, hair melted, skin burned off on 70% of the body and broke every joint. I am nearing full recovery 5 years later and a living example you can truly heal from anything💜

[yaredkokeb]

"Their journey was tracked by professionals years later."
*draws a line from siberia to senegal*

[TheNobleNoobs]

Cannibalism is more of an ideology, a cannibal is a person who chooses to consume another human being for pleasure or out of compulsion. When done purely for survival the label has no merit for me, never underestimate the human will to live nor shame the actions of those who have faced these do or die situations.

[RogerNbr]

no one is going to mention how amazing it is that one of them managed to sew a freaking blanket out of copper wires? thats some mvp hindsight