Montevideo –
Jose Luis Inciarte, a man Uruguay who became one of the survivors or survivors in a tragedy plane crash Of the Andes mountains in 1972 ago, died in his hometown of Montevideo. Inciarte died aged 75, some 50 years after he survived the plane crash.
As reported AFP, Friday (28/7/2023), Inciarte, who is fondly called ‘Coche’, became part of the amateur rugby team from Uruguay who flew to Chile to compete. The rugby team members were accompanied by their families when the plane they were traveling in crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
Thirty-three of the 45 people on board survived the initial impact, but only 16 were left after a 10-week ordeal in Andean glaciers without food, shelter or even warm clothes in minus 30 degree Celsius temperatures and altitudes around 3500 meters.
Even the survivors were forced to eat the flesh of their dead comrades to survive.
Rescue finally came after two of the young men in the party, Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado, trekked 10 days into unknown and obstacle-ridden terrain, managing to spot people by the river as they neared the end of their lives.
This incredible story of survival is known as the ‘Miracle in the Andes’ and immortalized in the film ‘Alive’ which was released in 1993.
“We lost a best friend,” Canessa told AFP on Thursday (27/7) local time, when Inciarte was declared dead from cancer.
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(nvc/ita)
2023-07-28 09:08:35
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