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.
Brian was in Afghanistan, embedded with the Mujahedin, fighting the Soviets back then.
That was 1971, that’s about the time Brian, as Command Pilot on Apollo 13 saved the spacecraft and crew.
OJT and good career prep, IMHO!
He was saving puppies from fires.
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
We need a game, “Where in the World is Brian Williams.”