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Chilean soccer team's plane finally found 54 years after doomed flight crashed in Andes
Fox News Latino ^ | February 09, 2015

Posted on 02/09/2015 6:34:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Fifty four years after a Douglas DC-3 crashed in Chile’s Andes – killing all 24 people aboard, including members of a Chilean soccer team and three referees – a team of mountaineers discovered the remains of the crash.

The 1961 LAN 301 air crash was deemed at the time one of the world’s major air disasters involving athletes – surpassed maybe only by the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash that stranded members of a rugby in the high Andes. The plane’s whereabouts has been one of the great unsolved aerial mysteries.

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1 posted on 02/09/2015 6:34:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Are these the guys that ate each other?


2 posted on 02/09/2015 6:37:26 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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No, that was the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash. Not to be confused with the 1970s pop song “Timothy.”


3 posted on 02/09/2015 6:39:22 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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I remember reading the book “Alive” a long time ago about the Uruguayan Rugby team crash.

The crash scene in the movie was one of the most intense things ever put on film.


4 posted on 02/09/2015 6:39:55 PM PST by dfwgator
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I didn’t see that movie. I’ll look into it.


5 posted on 02/09/2015 6:41:29 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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They find Wilson?


6 posted on 02/09/2015 6:42:51 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
You should. The crash scene was spellbinding and scary as hell. I saw it in the theater and it was intense.
7 posted on 02/09/2015 6:43:20 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Timothy, Timothy,
Joe was looking at you

Toothsome Tiny Tim (uurp)


8 posted on 02/09/2015 6:43:21 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dfwgator

Those guys ate the last halfway decent airline meal.


9 posted on 02/09/2015 6:44:51 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Veggie Todd

No. If two of the team members hadn’t climbed out of the mountains, they would never have found them either.


10 posted on 02/09/2015 6:45:11 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s a first-rate book, not sensationalized, but a plumbing of the depths that such an incident has on the human psyche. Reid did an extraordinary job.


11 posted on 02/09/2015 6:45:14 PM PST by jobim (.)
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“If two of the team members hadn’t climbed out of the mountains, they would never have found them either.”

I have a lot of respect for the toughness of rugby players.

12 posted on 02/09/2015 6:48:21 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: ConservativeStatement

Any survivors? :)


13 posted on 02/09/2015 6:54:06 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Veggie Todd

No that was in 1972 and Jeb would rather you refer to it as an act of love.


14 posted on 02/09/2015 6:59:13 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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“The crash scene in the movie was one of the most intense things ever put on film.”

Yes it was. But why the phony engine sounds? The sound of the F-227 Rolls Royce turbo props would have been so much more dramatic. The movie soundtrack was beautiful.


15 posted on 02/09/2015 7:03:26 PM PST by willk (everyone)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Interesting ...


16 posted on 02/09/2015 7:06:58 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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I was just wondering if some of the people survived the crash as a large part of the fuselage is pretty well intact. Maybe those that survived tried to make it to safety but died on the way.


17 posted on 02/09/2015 7:11:42 PM PST by Parley Baer
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I remember in my motorcycle days(1964), worked my way down to Lima, took a bus up to Macho Pincho(sp), on the way back say an airport on a ridge at about 6500 feet. Saw a sign said $5.00 back to Lima. So paid my fare, got on an old military DC 3. the ones with the side seats. full of natives, with goats, and stuff to sell in Lima. A Swarthy bearded Pilot boarded with his GF, went up up the cockpit (open) fired up(lots of smoke). Headed down the runway - never lifted off, just went off the end and dove down a canyon. Made a great landing in Lima. Took up flying in 67.
18 posted on 02/09/2015 7:21:34 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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The way I have it figured is those that survived began eating each other till there was just one person left.
That person starved to death.......


19 posted on 02/09/2015 7:26:02 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: ConservativeStatement

Also soccer air crah:

Munich air crash hero and Manchester United legend honoured in home town

http://www.colerainetimes.co.uk/news/local-news/munich-air-crash-hero-and-manchester-united-legend-honoured-in-home-town-1-6566252

Next week, Coleraine Academy will pay tribute to Manchester United and Northern Ireland legend Harry Gregg MBE, who was one of the survivors and heroes of the tragic Munich air disaster in 1958.

Manchester United’s website acknowledges his heroism in the crash that shocked the world of football on February 6, 1958.

It records: “Gregg was one of the disaster’s great heroes. Having escaped with just a bloody nose, he went back into the wreckage to pull out those who were trapped. He rescued a 20-month-old child, a pregnant woman and attempted to revive Matt Busby.


20 posted on 02/09/2015 7:36:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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