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Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College ), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes ...
Werner Doehner. Werner Gustav Doehner (March 14, 1929 – November 8, 2019) was a German-born Mexican and American electrical engineer and last living survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, when the German passenger-carrying rigid airship caught fire and was destroyed on May 6, 1937, during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast .
Publication date. May 9, 2006. Pages. 304. ISBN. 978-0756988470. Miracle in the Andes (in Spanish "Milagro en los Andes") is a 2006 non-fiction account of a rugby team's survival on a glacier in the Andes for 72 days by survivor Nando Parrado and co-author Vince Rause. It was published by Crown .
Survivors. 61. The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [1] (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. [2] [3] The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run during dense fog while Pan Am Flight 1736 was ...
The Chernobyl disaster [a] began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [1] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
Millvina Dean. Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. [1] At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard. [2]
1,746. On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. [1] The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons (1.6 million tons, according to some sources [who?]) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).
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