The Andes Tragedy

EventsEvents

• 45 people left Montevideo, Uruguay October 12, 72 in an air force Fairchild flight

• Landed in Mendoza, Argentina for an unplanned layover due to bad weather

• Oct 13. 72 at 2:18 left Argentina for Santiago Chile

• At 3:30 air force Fairchild flight crashed somewhere on the Andes mountains

Planned Trip

Mendoza

Inside the Cabin

The Crash

Across the Andes in Chile

What Really Happened

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Picture

Barrio Pocitos

Colegio Stella Maris

Fútbol

Growing up in Montevideo

Plaza Independencia

La Universidad de la República

Teatro Solis

Mercado del Puerto

Tabaré Vazquez

Some Personal Stories

• Carlos Paez Vilaró

• Francisco Nicola

• Fernando Arlegui

Carlitos Paez and Carlos Paez Vilaró

Francisco Nicola

Fernando ArleguiFernando Arlegui

Thirty Six Years Later

Life goes on

Nando Parrado, his father Seler and his wife Veronique

Javier Methol

Carlitos Paez

Sergio Catalán

Two who did not go

• Fernando Arlegui • Gilberto Regules

The Grave

ReferencesReferences• Alive: the story of the Andes Survivors (1974) A book

by Piers Paul Read• Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My

Long Trek Home (2006) A book by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause

• La Sociedad de la Nieve (2008) A Book by Pablo Vierci• Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993) A film directed

by Frank Marshal, narrated by John Malkovitch and starred by Ethan Hawke

References (cont.)

• Stranded: I have come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains (2007) A film by Gonzalo Arijon, first shown in the International Film Festival Amsterdan and awarded the Joris Ivens Award

• www.elmilagrodelosandes.com

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