Eastern Airlines Flight 980 was making its final approach to El Alto Airport in La Paz, Bolivia, when it crashed in the Andes. Eastern officials in Miami said they could not even speculate what caused the plane to smack into the Illimani mountain, but agreed that El Alto is one of the ...
More than five decades after the first flight of its prototype and over 17,000 units built; the “Hip” family of aircraft has been used by civil and military operators in over 70 countries and built in a myriad of variants and sub variants that would make the most learned of experts bre...
Peru plane crash.Reports on an investigation into the crash of a Boeing 737 jet in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Death of all 12 passengers and crew; Two Canadians among the dead.EBSCO_AspMacleans
Pictures Bruce Ramsay, the Los Angeles-based actor who just completed the motion picture `Alive,' based on the 1972 story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose members resorted to cannibalism after their plane crashed in the Andes. Ramsay said his research for playing the part of Carlitos Paez ...
Parrado discusses the crash of a jetliner in the Andes Mountains in 1972. Parrado and the Christians Rugby Club of Uruguay were flying to a match in Santiago, Chile. The crash of the plane and his survival and eventual rescue are detailed.EBSCO_AspPeople...
Outlines how Vancouver chef Sam Okamoto, 44, developed a simulated human leg for 'Alive,' a movie based on the true story of Uruguayan rugby players who survived for 69 days before rescue from a 1972 plane crash in the Andes by eating the flesh of their dead teammates. The human leg ...
He took part in the peasant revolution in the central Andes. He died in a plane crash in Madrid, Spain in 1983.SotoJuan GonzálesRevista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana«Manuel Scorza: apuntes para una biografia», Revista de critica literaria latinoamericana, n. 47, pp. 259-280....