
Carlos Miguel Páez Rodríguez (known as "Carlitos"), is a Uruguayan agricultural technician, businessman, publicist, writer and lecturer. He was also a sportsman and rugby player for the Uruguayan team Old Christians Club, a club with which he is one of the survivors of the FAU 571 plane tragedy in the Andes in 1972. Páez is the son of Carlos Páez Vilaró (a well-known Uruguayan painter) and Madeló...
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The unbelievable story of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying a rugby team traveling with friends and family to a match in Chile. Of the 45 passengers, only 16 ultimately survived after the plane crashed in a remote location in the snow-covered Andes Mountains.

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Journalistic investigation of more than two months, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Andes Tragedy, the crash of the Uruguayan Air Force plane 571 that fell into the Andes with 45 passengers, many of them young rugby players, on October 13, 1972.

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

A documentary revolving around the 1972 crash of the plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team; interviews with survivors and the families of victims.
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