Ep. - 616 - 1972 ANDES PLANE CRASH, MIRACLE OF THE ANDES DIRECTOR BRAD OSBORNE
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Brad Osborne is the writer and director of I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash - and the recently completed 50th anniversary documentary The Andes Tragedy: 50 Years Later.
On October 13, 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo, Uruguay to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the Andes mountains . The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Miracle of the Andes. I am Alive tells through the first-person account of survivor Nando Parrado.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Cassie DePeckel, the host of Wunderies podcast against the odds. |
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| 0:09.4 | mission to place a nuclear-powered spine device atop a deadly Himalayan mountain. |
| 0:14.6 | Listen to against the odds on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome back to another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:28.2 | In this episode, I talk about one of the most incredible rescue stories. |
| 0:32.4 | Jean, how sometimes you read a book or you watch a movie and you can't get that story |
| 0:36.2 | out of your head? |
| 0:37.5 | Well, that happened to me many years ago when I watched the movie Alive, starring Ethan |
| 0:41.8 | Hawk. |
| 0:43.5 | And I found myself reading every book, reading every article, watching every documentary |
| 0:48.3 | I could, confounded by this story. |
| 0:52.6 | So in this episode, I talk about this miraculous story, but also interview the documentary |
| 0:59.4 | filmmaker who put this into film. |
| 1:03.3 | On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevino Uruguay to Santiago |
| 1:10.9 | Chile crashed in the Andes Mountains. |
| 1:14.0 | The accident and subsequent survival became known as the miracle of the Andes. |
| 1:19.2 | At first, none of the passengers panicked. There were only a few who showed much alarm. |
| 1:24.4 | Most of the 45 passengers were in their late teens and early 20s, members of a rugby team |
| 1:29.4 | traveling from Uruguay to playing in an exhibition in Chile. |
| 1:34.0 | Their chartered plane hit turbulence over the Andes and dropped several hundred feet. |
| 1:38.9 | Then the plane hit a second air pocket and dropped some more, and now suddenly, as it fell |
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