Today back in 1972 fourteen survivors were found 10 weeks after plane crash. The Chilean Air force found the survivors from a plane that crashed in the Argentine Andes over two months before.Four days after the rescue, a Santiago paper alleged that the survivors became cannibals to ward off starvation. The group confirmed that they ate human flesh at a press conference two days later.
A film based on the event was released in 1993, starring Ethan Hawke.
Fourteen of the survivors retraced their fateful flight route on the 30th anniversary in 2002.