1972 Andes flight disaster

When

13 Oct 1972

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

34.77° S, 70.29° W

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

31

Injured

16

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1972 aviation accident in the Andes mountains of Argentina

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as both the Andes flight disaster and the Miracle of the Andes.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14000 ft in the Andes mountain range”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “And Dağlarında uçak kazası 45 kişiyi taşıyan bir uçak And Dağları'na çarpıp düşmüş hayatta kalan 16 kişi ancak 23 Aralık 1972 günü kazanın üzerinden iki aydan…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Anden, Uruguay”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “accident du vol 571 Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В чилийских Андах разбился транспортный самолёт уругвайских ВВС с членами регбийной команды «Old Cristians», их родственниками и спонсорами”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el Vuelo 571 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya se estrella en la Cordillera de los Andes, el avión que trasporta a un equipo de rugby uruguayo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1972年安第斯空難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ウルグアイ空軍機571便遭難事故により、以後72日間アンデス山中で生存者16人がサバイバル。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page