Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away in Montevideo just one day before his 71st ...

A new and highly regarded film that has just arrived on Netflix tells the incredible story of the survivors of a plane crash in ... the Snow" looks at how a Uruguayan rugby team "managed to ...

In 1972, a rugby team’s plane crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors stranded for 72 days, forcing them to endure extreme conditions, and ultimately resort to desperate measures to stay alive.

Canessa was a 19-year-old second-year medical student when the plane he and his rugby teammates had chartered to carry them to a match crashed into ... in his homeland of Uruguay as “El Milagro ...

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday took part in a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the so-called Andes tragedy, an airplane crash that ... Old Christians rugby club and some ...

In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party ...