They believed that Chile lay just to the west, and that if they could get over a nearby, 15,000-foot high mountain range, greenery and civilization awaited them. Two months after the crash, 16 passengers remained, and the weather got warmer, finally making an expedition possible. Parrado was dug out at the very last second, but eight of the survivors perished. “I cried, I shouted at the snow, and then I relaxed, waiting for death.” “My chest was exploding, and I couldn’t do anything,” says Parrado. Not only were they pinned in whatever physical position the crashing snow left them in, but they were now dangerously low on oxygen. On day 18, with 27 passengers still alive, an avalanche buried all but two of them in the fuselage. Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse, they got much worse. They had considered an expedition, but the snow - as deep as 100 feet - made walking impossible. “The survival instinct kicks up with a strength you can’t even imagine.” They made knives out of the plastic from the plane’s windows, and used them to carve into the raw flesh. When they ran out of the only food they had - chocolates a can of sardines - they tried eating the leather from their suitcases, but it proved inedible.Īfter 10 days, Parrado turned to one of his teammates and said the unthinkable: “Carlito, I want to eat the pilot.” “In a situation like that, you have to peel away what’s human, and do things you never thought you would have to do to survive. You cannot think the same way you think when you’re in a city like New York,” Parrado says. “You’re transformed from a normal human being. When team member Nando Parrado, who lost his mother and sister in the crash, realized the dire nature of their 30-below-zero hell, something about him changed. Of the 45 passengers, 12 were killed instantly.
#I AM ALIVE: SURVIVING THE ANDES PLANE CRASH CRACKED#
When the plane crashed in the Andes, it cracked in two, and skidded 5,000 feet. The plane’s passengers were a Uruguayan rugby team en route to a match in Chile. Facing brutal winter weather with a complete lack of resources, the survivors had no choice but to eat those who had already died in order to live. “I Am Alive” tells the harrowing true story of the October 1972 plane crash and the 72 days that followed.
It is, in fact, the spine of the plane’s pilot - whom the survivors of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 have already eaten to survive. To their right, something shocking sits on the ground - a human spine. At one point in the documentary, “I Am Alive: Surviving The Andes Plane Crash,” we see a photo of five men sitting in the snow, several of them smiling.
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