
Episode #8
Seventy-Two Days in the Andes
<p>On the thirteenth of October, 1972, a Fairchild carrying forty-five people — most of them connected to an amateur rugby club from Montevideo — struck a ridge in the Andes and broke apart at around eleven and a half thousand feet. Search aircraft flew for eight days, from a position report that was wrong, looking for a white fuselage lying on snow. On the twenty-first of October the survivors heard on a transistor radio that the search had been suspended. One of them reportedly called it good news, because it meant they now knew they would have to get out themselves. Twenty-nine died...

