1972 Andes Plane Crash, Miracle of the Andes
Episode 616
EPISODE 616
1972 ANDES PLANE CRASH, MIRACLE OF THE ANDES
DIRECTOR BRAD OSBORNE
Brad Osborne is the writer and director of I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash - and the recently completed 50th anniversary documentary The Andes Tragedy: 50 Years Later.
On October 13, 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo, Uruguay to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the Andes mountains . The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Miracle of the Andes. I am Alive tells through the first-person account of survivor Nando Parrado.
