The actual survivors of the crash were consulted to make the production as accurate as possible, and one of them, Nando Parrado, served as technical advisor. Doubling for the actual location, the filmmakers used the Delphine glacier at an altitude of 9,500 feet in the Columbia Mountains near Panorama, British Columbia. The plane crash was one of the most realistic ever filmed. The producers were able to obtain the usage of the exact type of aircraft involved in the crash-a Fairchild F-227 twin-engined turboprop. Stars Ethan Hawke (Nando Parrado), Vincent Spano (Antonio Balbi), Josh Hamilton (Roberto Canassa). A Touchstone film, being a co-production with Paramount Pictures, with the latter handling foreign distribution. Finally, after ten weeks, two men, Nando and Roberto, left camp and bravely traveled over the Andes where they were able to find help. Soon their food and drink was gone, and facing a certain future of starvation and death, they resorted to cannibalism.
On the eighth day they learned via transistor radio that official search operations had been abandoned. Several of the passengers and most of the crew died instantly, but the majority survived and waited to be rescued. The cause of this particular accident was human error, however. 23 of 78 the Fairchild 227’s ever built have crashed. The plane was a Fairchild 227, a model that had a terrible track record for crashing.
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On October 13, 1972, a plane full of passengers crashed in the Andes mountains. Flying in poor visibility, the plane’s wing clipped the side of a mountain, and the aircraft came to rest on the snow-covered Tinguiririca volcano at 11,500 feet. I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash. Alive (film) In 1972, an airplane carrying a rugby team of Uruguayan college students crashes in the Andes en route to a game in Chile.
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