Plane carrying Chile soccer stars found, 50 years on

[malaise]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/plane-carrying-chile-soccer-stars-found-50-years-033816976--sow.html
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Santiago (AFP) - Climbers in Chile's Andes say they have found the wreckage of a missing plane that disappeared more than half a century ago with a team of soccer stars on board.

Images of the twisted wreck of the LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 that went down April 3, 1961 were shown on Chilean television Sunday, released by the climbers who said the find was in Maule, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) south of Santiago.

"The plane is more than 3,200 meters (10,000 feet) up the mountain. Quite a bit of the fuselage is still there, a lot of things scattered over the area including human bones. So this story is getting a rewrite since this is not where original accounts said," one of the mountaineers, Leonardo Albornoz, explained.

The plane was carrying 34 people when it crashed, with all presumed dead.

They included eight members of the Green Cross football squad, team coach Arnaldo Vasquez, and other team staff and friends who were coming back to Santiago from a match in Osorno.

[trumad]

1. Wow

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Astounding!

Good thing CNN wasn't around 54 years ago. Don Lemon would *still* be yapping about potential "black holes".

All kidding aside, it's a good thing that their families will have closure.

[malaise]

3. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Thread winner

[pinboy3niner]

9. Thank God it just now escaped the black hole that grabbed it!

[malaise]

10. It escaped CNN

Give thanks

[pinboy3niner]

12. Is Wolf Blitzer a flesh-eating zombie? CNN says too close to call.

[CanSocDem]

4. There were survivors...

...in case you've forgotten.

Brilliant book and movie called Alive.



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[Cooley Hurd]

5. I think that was a different aircraft accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster and, in South America, as the Miracle of the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. 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 dead passengers who 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.

[malaise]

6. Different flights n/t

[CanSocDem]

7. OK then...(eom)

[Orrex]

8. Honestly, that was my first thought was well.

[Dr. Strange]

13. You're thinking of the Andes flight.

Wherein the survivors were forced to eat Brian Williams in order to avoid starvation.

[malaise]

15. Too freaking good

[underpants]

11. I was going to ask if any of them were still kicking

[Are_grits_groceries]

14. RIP.... nt