Argentina Rugby Air Crash
On october 13 1972 uruguayan air force flight 571 went down in the andes along the argentine chilean border.
Argentina rugby air crash. Onboard was an uruguayan rugby team along with friends and relatives. Lapa flight 3142 was a scheduled buenos airescordoba flight operated by the argentine airline lineas aereas privadas argentinas. Of the 45 people aboard the plane only 16 survived the ordeal. A large part of the fuselage is still intact and a lot of material including human bones are scattered around the wreck the plane crash brings to mind a widely publicized disaster that.
The wreck was located at an elevation of 3570 metres 11710 ft in the remote andes mountains in far western argentina near the border with chile. The flight was carrying 45 passengers and crew including 19 members of the old christians club rugby union team along with their families supporters and friends. Uruguayan air force flight 571 was flying members of a college rugby team and their relatives from uruguays capital montevideo to santiago chile for a rugby game. Uruguayan air force flight 571 also known as the andes flight disaster and in south america as the miracle of the andes el milagro de los andes was a chartered flight carrying 45 people including a rugby union team their friends family and associates that crashed in the andes on 13 october 1972.
It was friday the 13th of october in 1972 when an uruguayan aircraft carrying the old christians rugby team and their friends and family went down in the mountains in argentina near the border. The plane a twin engine turboprop was only four years old. Uruguayan air force flight 571 also called miracle of the andes or spanish el milagro de los andes flight of an airplane charted by a uruguayan amateur rugby team that crashed in the andes mountains in argentina on october 13 1972 the wreckage of which was not located for more than two months. The crash resulted in 65 fatalities 63 of them occupants of the aircraft and 2 on the ground as well as injuries some serious to at least a.
Spanishnat an expedition by the argentine army has recovered human remains and aeroplane parts from the site of a 1947 plane crash high in the andes mountai.