They gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their horrific ordeal dubbed Miracle in the Andes. The incident on Uruguayan Flight 571 was recorded in the best-selling book, Alive ...

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

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in a remote location in Chile’s Andes Mountains on October ... breaking off both wings and the tail. The fuselage then slid down a mountain into a glacier ...

The accident, which came to be known as the "Miracle of the Andes," initiated one of the most remarkable survival stories of the 20th century. The survivors endured 72 harrowing days in the snow ...

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 ...