"In these kinds of situations it's not how you survive but why you survive," Roberto Canessa tells PEOPLE of surviving the 1972 Andes flight ... crash and with only 16 of the 45 passengers left ...

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Survivors of 1972 Andes plane crash who lasted for 72 days by eating ... our own bodies were consuming themselves just to remain alive. Before long we would become too weak to recover from starvation.

Álvaro Mangino, second right, following his rescue from the Andes in 1972 - @alvaromangino.oficial/Newsflash/NX ...

Álvaro Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away in Montevideo ... His story gained fame through the 1993 film Alive and the 2023 Netflix film Society ...

Parrado, 56, is perhaps the best-known of the 16 survivors of the crash of a Uruguayan Air Force plane in the Andes Mountains in ... in the best-selling book "Alive" and a subsequent movie ...

Álvaro Mangino, who has died on the eve of his 72nd birthday, was a survivor of what became known as both “the tragedy of the Andes” and “the miracle of the Andes”, when a plane carrying ...