On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into the Andes Mountains.

For the following 72 days, survivors of the crash were stranded in the ice and snow,

forced to survive in sub-zero temperatures, battling starvation and avalanches.

Desperate to escape the mountains, two of the crash survivors trekked across the harsh terrain for 10 days, eventually finding rescue for the remaining survivors.

Learn more about the survival of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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On October 12, 1972, the old Christian rugby club of Montevideo Irogui

chartered a plane to San Diego, Chile,

for a match against the old boys club. The plane departed from Carosco International Airport

in Montevideo with 45 people on board, including 40 passengers and five crew members. Despite a

smooth departure, it was soon forced to make an early landing in Mendoza, Argentina, due to poor weather.

This delay caused the plane to take off from Mendoza at 2.18 p.m. the following day.

The plane was on an indirect course south through the pass of Planchan, allowing it to clear the Andes Mountains.

This was because the plane, a Fairchild Hiller, F.H. 227D, was not built to fly high enough to safely clear the mountain range, making an unsafe to fly the direct path to Santiago.

Due to the weather conditions, cloud cover obscured the sky, preventing the pilots from confirming their location visually and forcing them to rely on their instruments.

The inability to visually see their location led to the co to rely on their instruments. The inability to visually

see their location led to the co-pilot incorrectly identifying their location to Chilean air traffic

control and getting clearance to start landing procedures despite still being over the Andes. As the plane

started its descent, it encountered severe turbulence and rapidly fell hundreds of feet.

From there, the passengers of the plane noticed that the aircraft was uncomfortably close to the mountains.

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