A plane crash survivor has recalled having to eat his friends as they waited to be rescued.
It’s almost 49 years to the day the remaining survivors of an Uruguayan rugby team were rescued after their plane crashed into the Andes.
On October 13, 1972, a charter jet carrying the Old Christians Club rugby union team across the Andes mountains crashed, killing 29 of the 45 people on board.
Three crew members and eight passengers died instantly or on the plane’s impact.
Another 18 died over the course of the next 72 days before the survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972.
While waiting to be rescued, the survivors, most of whom lived by the sea in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo and had never seen snow before, struggled with shockingly cold temperatures at night with temperatures dipping to -30C.
They lacked medical supplies, adequate clothes for the freezing weather conditions and equipment or food.
Survivor, Nando Parrado added: “We were starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon grew so voracious that we searched anyway.
