[From The Vault 🔐] Flight 571: Survival in the Andes

[From The Vault 🔐] Flight 571: Survival in the Andes

Author: Leonardo English April 3, 2026 Duration: 23:58
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In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes. Stranded in freezing mountains, the young survivors faced hunger, avalanches, and a terrible moral choice. 

It would become one of history’s greatest survival stories.

  • 1972 Andes plane crash of Uruguayan rugby team
  • Navigation error; early descent; crash into mountain
  • Survivors shelter in plane body; bitter cold at night
  • Student doctors treat injuries with improvised tools
  • Melting snow for water; radio says search is cancelled
  • Starvation leads to agreement to eat the dead
  • Deadly avalanche buries shelter; more survivors die
  • Tail of plane found; batteries fail; sleeping bag created
  • Parrado and Canessa walk west; find help by note
  • Helicopter rescue; 16 survive; public debate and aftermath


 Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/flight-571


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