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- Plane carrying 81 including top flight Brazil football team Chapecoense crashed into Colombia mountains
- The aircraft came down after taking off from Bolivian airport amid reports of on board ‘electrical problems’
- There are five survivors from the crash including three players, a journalist and two of the crew members
- The team were set to play Copa Sudamericana tournament final on Wednesday as part of a fairy tale season
Authorities stated it was too soon to speculate if a previous air disaster involving South American sports team had any effect on this most recent crash. In each instance there were survivors from the initial crash. In the 1972 crash an undetermined number of passengers were consumed by their fellow passengers. There are no reports of a buffet line being set up at the Columbia crash site.
1972 Andes flight disaster
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashedin the Andes on 13 October 1972, in an incident known as the Andes flight disaster and, in the Hispanic world and South America, as the Miracle of the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes). More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash.
The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the bodies of dead passengers that had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found Chilean arriero Sergio Catalán,[1] who gave them food and then alerted the authorities to the existence of the other survivors.