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Football team plane found 50 years after crash in Chile
BBC ^ | 08.02.2015 | Tim Allman

Posted on 02/08/2015 1:58:02 AM PST by moose07

Mountaineers in Chile have discovered the wreckage of a plane that went missing more than 50 years ago.

Twenty four people died when the aircraft disappeared in 1961 - among them eight players for what was then one of Chile's top football teams.

VIDEO at site.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1961; alive; andes; chile; missing; planecrash
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RIP.
1 posted on 02/08/2015 1:58:02 AM PST by moose07
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To: moose07

It's still aliens.

2 posted on 02/08/2015 2:02:55 AM PST by Bullish (He's just NOT presidential material.)
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To: moose07

I’d imagine they also found d what was left of the frozen bodies with parts cut off.


3 posted on 02/08/2015 3:29:44 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

The video wasn`t too specific on that.
But you can guarantee that a documentary team will find the location before to long , despite the best efforts to keep it quiet.


4 posted on 02/08/2015 3:34:52 AM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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To: driftdiver

That was actually the Uruguayan plane crash, also in the Andes, in 1971, I believe. That one carried rugby players and their families and fans, most of the survivors made it by cannibalizing the dead; they ate the pilot and copilot first as they blamed them for the crash. No, Brian Williams was not on that plane and he was not among the rescuers; he was only a teenager serving Whoppers at Burger King in preparation for his “news” career.


5 posted on 02/08/2015 4:46:49 AM PST by laconic
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To: laconic

Brian was in Afghanistan, embedded with the Mujahedin, fighting the Soviets back then.


6 posted on 02/08/2015 4:51:30 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

Brian was in Havana, and interviewing Castro.


7 posted on 02/08/2015 4:59:43 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

He was quite capable of being in two places at the same time, I am told. :-)


8 posted on 02/08/2015 5:08:35 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: laconic

That was 1971, that’s about the time Brian, as Command Pilot on Apollo 13 saved the spacecraft and crew.


9 posted on 02/08/2015 5:17:57 AM PST by Captain7seas (i)
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To: Bullish

Soccer isn’t football either...


10 posted on 02/08/2015 5:21:26 AM PST by maddog55
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To: Captain7seas

I felt a shock this morning when I read a column by Maureen Dowd in the NY Times critical of Brian Williams. We all know that NBC News couldn’t give a farthing what WE think about his lying and the impact on what he and their network present as “news” (I haven’t watched network news on a regular basis for 30 years). They DO care what the rest of the “establishment” thinks, however, and this ain’t good news for the career of Brian Williams; once the clouds start gathering at the NY Times, they will have pouring rain at NBC and Brian Williams may be back to serving his Whoppers at Burger King and not on the nightly “news”.


11 posted on 02/08/2015 5:46:50 AM PST by laconic
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To: maddog55

Soccer is indeed football in Latin America and Spain. I leaned to play “futbal” in Spain growing up as a kid, when my dad was stationed there in the military. It is not American football, but it is called “futbal” nonetheless.


12 posted on 02/08/2015 5:53:49 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: laconic
I read that article too. Dowd said that the big mucky-mucks at NBC had been warning Williams for years against embellishing his resume with stories that were not true. But with many of them not around anymore to monitor or scold him, he just continued. Why he did it, we don't know. I speculate that he is a narcissist and needs to feed his ego so that he looks better to himself than he knows he is. Did he need to do it? Absolutely not. He was already at the pinnacle of his career and didn't need to artificially advance it.

He's a liberal and a liar. What else is new?

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13 posted on 02/08/2015 6:09:40 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Captain7seas

I heard that it was really Brian who invented the polio vaccine...and engineered and built the interstate highway system...and dug the Panama canal with a shovel. Let’s see, there was Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Pecos Bill, Finn MacCool, Chuck Norris and Brian Williams. All the rest sat and drank beer while Brian dug the canal. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, he was King Arthur’s favorite knight also.


14 posted on 02/08/2015 6:12:09 AM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: laconic
he was only a teenager serving Whoppers at Burger King in preparation for his “news” career.

OJT and good career prep, IMHO!

15 posted on 02/08/2015 6:12:53 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: laconic

He was saving puppies from fires.


16 posted on 02/08/2015 6:15:55 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: RipSawyer

You cannot forget that he and Al Gore invented the internet AND Global Warming.


17 posted on 02/08/2015 6:17:26 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: HotHunt

Common characteristics?
They are all men with creepy looking eyes.


18 posted on 02/08/2015 6:30:18 AM PST by Zathras
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To: laconic

There have been two movies made about the Fairchild 571 that crashed in the Argentinian Andes on October 13, 1972.

The first was a pretty low budget Mexican movie, Survive! (1976), which was not bad, though hard to find today.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075290/reference

The Hollywood version, Alive (1993), had a lot bigger budget, much better acting, and a lot more drama, but it feels more like a movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106246/reference


19 posted on 02/08/2015 6:31:20 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Captain7seas

It was Brian Williams on board Apollo 13 who said,

“Houston, we have a problem.”


20 posted on 02/08/2015 7:06:51 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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