Alive: Flight 571 crash site in Google Earth
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2008
- Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972.
After successful trek by two of them couple of months later, total of 16 were rescued.
These are some related locations + paths spotted from Google Earth. Exact places and climb route are hard to verify, but these should be pretty close.
Be sure to check the book and movie made about this event!
Edit: Placemarks info (note: coordinates are based on photographs etc, might not be totally correct). Video zooms in from north. Fuselage is in the middle of valley (34°45'46.80"S, 70°17'21.03"W). A bit to east is current memorial site (34°45'54.12"S, 70°17'7.81"W). Further down valley is the tail (34°45'42.62"S, 70°16'45.53"W). Wing is in the upper slope (34°46'19.86"S, 70°17'5.06"W) and crash point in the south (34°46'22.20"S, 70°17'49.45"W). Further down south is Tinguiririca volcano (not related to this event). Next are the points where Parrado and Canessa climbed (34°45'30.70"S, 70°18'29.49"W) and were finally rescued some 9 days later 33 miles away ( 34°47'51.58"S, 70°28'54.02"W).
Edit 16.7.2012: Video was getting blocked in several countries due to music copyright of "Rebellion (lies)" by The Arcade Fire. So audio was swapped to "Again" by Secrets In Stereo.
I still cannot get over the fact that two nineteen year old boys walked more than 40 miles, up and over 15,000 foot snow covered mountains, in summer clothes, for ten days - after 2 months trapped on a mountain, having been through a crash, a head injury, the death of a mother, sister, friends, an avalanche and having to make unbearable decisions. It was a feat of monumental proportions, bravery and strength. Can you imagine any nineteen year old you know doing that?
I do not believe that too
Its just the media hype
or they had a lot of meat hahha
Vashti I can’t imagine anyone doing that. Greatest mountaineering feat in history.
MXJunky SHAAD up.
They were football players, of course they were in shape.
@@bevstanx-8840 everyone was in shape back then, good ol'70s
you created exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
All the 16 survivors are still ALIVE!
14 are left
No 2 died to cancer after
Sure. I made that initial comment in 2009! @@jenniferfebles116
This is great. Now I can get a fuller grasp of the details regarding the crash and just how great the odds the survivors had to overcome. An amazing journey of survival.
Wow. Thanks for posting this.
You can tell from these 2008 images to current images the incredible galcier loss, the glacier shown in this video (2008?) doesn't exist anymore!
Julián Katari yes it does you idiot, glaciers melt and re freeze by season. Stop trying to make some stupid political point, especially when you don’t know what your talking about
@@willnill7946 "political point" lmao stop making basic science (fucking observation being literally the first step) political. Damn nimrods. Get your politics out of science. Glaciers are receding around the world and the formation of glacial lakes is threatening potential jokulhaups in remote parts of BC, the Himalayas and the Andes. You know fucking nothing. I go into a lot of mountains personally on the regular and have seen signature glaciers right here in the PNW receding with my own eyes year after year.
@@ddev7376 You're full of shit!
@@ddev7376 stop driving to the mountains then. You're part of the problem. Love it when people complain about global warming but the continue to use electricity and gasoline because they don't want to lose their comfortable life styles. It's all "the earth is going to end unless we change... but I'm not going to change."
@@keinlieb3818 because it's about controlling other people, self control is nowhere near as fun, that'd be my guess
Great work! Could you please also share the track that Parrado and Canessa did? Thanks again!
i always thought the tail was higher than the fuselage,
Search with these coordinates: 34°45'46.80"S, 70°17'21.03"W
WRONG format, unsearchable, use this with google maps -> 34°45′54″S 70°17′11″W
Ime thinking of climing to this spot in august time, wondering what the easiest safest route would be ? Anyone know ?
Miracle in the Andes is one of the books written about this. I am reading it and its amazing! A friend of mine on the street I live on ghost wrote it after meeting Nando and flying to the site of the crash.
I've just downloaded Google Earth...how do I locate it?
@Austinbit Thanks! You're right the numbering is bit misleading, they only tell the time it took to walk out of there, not the total days
I think it depends on the original video quality, at least I didn't do anything special during upload. This video was 720 x 576 wmv.
Very cool - amazing story. I can only imagine the emotions any survivors would relive if they have ever seen their perilous situation from this perspective.
hey do u think u can send me those coordinates
Why can't the fuselage and tail be located and seen?
Does anyone knows the name of the song? thanks
Hey, thanks, I added some location info to description
The alignment of the pins doesn't make sense to me . . . the tail, wing, and fuselage form points on a triangle . . . rather than a near straight line trajectory. Am I wrong?
Are those coords correct?
which song is this?
is there any photo of the fuselage today ?
are the pieces of the plain still sitting there?
Is there an exact location? I want to find it myself!
@Farerets
How about now?
thanks heaps for your efforts.
i couldn't read the location info tho due to quality.. but still cool
Anyone know where this road led to??
I have measured this over and over again on Google Earth. I only get about 11 miles. When I view this as close as possible, they had to do the initial climb to the west but the rest was downhill. If someone measures different, let me know.
Only 11 miles. Mate you clearly have no idea what its like to be in the andes and at that altitude. 3500M elevation means a 1 minute walk can feel like a 10 minute walk up hill. These guys had summer clothes on and no food. Even 5 miles in this terrain is life or death if your unfamiliar and un prepared.
@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi you're
My dad knows nando :)
The song is Rebellion by Arcade Fire
@area51er6 I heard it on one of the documentarys and I actually have never read the book but would like to someday.
I added those to description
check the history channel..they are showing a 2 hour documentary of this ...all of this month. also, i never quite understood why they toom the right over over the andes insted of crossing it. it cant be all cos of bad weather?!
Exact site on google earth just by curiosity
Where do you get 33.5 miles from? I measured the distance from the mountain to Los Maitenes in google earth and I get 12 miles.
I don't remember anymore where I got it from, but now that I checked it seems it was even longer walk. Some say it was 38 or 44 miles. History channel doc says it was nearly 40 miles. In any case 10 days walk and incredible achievement.
forzajj Google Earth says 12 miles. Measure it yourself.
Kevin Luna In the history channel doc the rescue site is marked further down the valley. Straight line distance for that is about 14 miles in google earth. In that environment 40 miles walk seems possible. Anyway thanks for pointing this out. Here is the doc I mentioned: czcams.com/video/x5Mpm5nYxls/video.html#t=1h07m30s
+Kevin Luna ok, google earth you are measuring distance "as crow flies".
i expect when distance inc. elevation of terrain measures closer to the 40 miles
Kevin Luna... guess what? They were climbing, sliding and walking over extremely rough mountainous terrain. Not flying.
An incredible story of survival. I read Alive when I was a teenager in the 70's and couldnt put it down.
Me too. I was just about to order it and read it again but will probably go with another account. It was the first book I ever read that really stuck with me since.
I read the book at a young age and couldn't put it down! Going to reread
@TomBrooklyn the fuselage and tail piece were incinerated (intentionally) following the rescue.
el lugar exacto donde quedo el avion es del lado argentino,usted lo situa del lado chileno.
According to the book.....that was a road someone noticed but didn't investigate....also there was a ski lodge not too far away like 14 miles I think....but at the time they didn't know that
Your right , but there was a river, impossible to cross between that hotel.and them.
The road that one of the men thought he saw was a geological fault. But there was some kind of facility - a building with supplies - at a mine, no many miles away. Unfortunately the crash survivors had no way of knowing that...
It was a hotel that was abandoned 20 years earlier and had only walls and no provisions. It DID have a hot thermal pool but was 18 miles away.
The hotel was closed & the road was out of reach ~ going west went to green Chile; east went further into the cordillera & death.
@@harrymiller2944No rivers are impossible to cross
I remember I checked opinions about the lyrics and found they could match this case. But basically I chose it for it's atmosphere and because it's such a great song
They are my estimates, could be bit off...
any up for a piece of the co-pilot? It's still fresh till now.
@SolarisDeLuna Yeah ppl don't read anymore, but it gives much more insight to their story, I think they mentioned lot's of rivers to the west, but any rivers to their east would've been frozen, it was record setting low temperatures that yr and snow fall. it's almost disrespectful for the book or documentary to mention the hotel theory, in light of what they already accomplished
It's actualy marked on google Earth where the plane came down "Vuelo Fuerza Aerea Uruguaya 571".
@SolarisDeLuna Ah I've seen you've read the book! actually the book says nothing about a river. They say they would have come to road in about 3 days (the same road canessa thought he saw, but swore was impossible) and the Hotel was only 5 miles east of the Fairchild! but they thought they were a lot closer to Curico than Argentina, which wasn't the case.
wrong, wrong, and wrong. No road even today in the area and the abandoned hotel was 18 miles away.
I guess there's only some small pieces now
The tail, and one side of the wing got ripped off at the initial impact (crash) site on top of the mountain. The other side of the wing seconds later. How is it the tail ended up farther down the valley than the fuselage? And the wing that far over to the east. Makes no sense!!! And in the movie they walked back up the mountain towards the impact site to find the wings, bodies who had been sucked out of the rear of the plane, and eventually the tail. Again, makes no sense!!!
The Andes are more imposing than I thought.
and how do you feel about, say, the Milky Way? Does it impress you at all?
@forzajj Oh ok, yea I figured that out after I posted. It was actually day 62 they started to hike out. Nonetheless, thanks for sharing this!
hey.. They werent rescued before 70 days later?? Not 9 days. They ate each other and stuff to survive
The only thing thats wrong is the Day numbers. You labeled the days from 1, when they actually didnt start hiking until day 60-something. Anyways, you did such a great job with your research, its still a great job. Thanks for posting...!
I believe this are they’d they hiked. Not counting the days they were there prior
So hard to imagine the scale
what is the yellow line? can't be the boundary...
If you look on the new Google Earth, 34°45′54″S 70°17′11″W shows that there is a road and industrial units about 20km away. I know that they were starving, in extreme weather and terrain, but knowing that certainly cheapens the "Miracle of the Andes".
It's the border, but this video is very old and border seems to be in wrong place. Now that I looked at google earth the border was following the mountain tops.
gregapage It doesn't cheapen it at all. They were underfed and it was nearly impossible to spend a night outside of the plane. In the only attempt to spend a night without the shelter of the fuselage, tail or sleeping bag, the expeditionaries barely made it back to the plane and were hobbled for days afterward. Even if they knew about the road and had left straight after the crash, they would likely have died trying to get to get to it.
tristanactor The border line is wrong. It should be exactly over the higher mountains at the place. Chile to the right, Argentina down the left side (seeing from North).
"cheapens the Miracle of the Andes..." It's amazing how many prize-winning idiots comment on this story. The crash survivors didn't even know whether they were on the fringes of the Andes or in the middle. How were they supposed to know about those facilities 20 km away, amid some of the world's highest mountains, under 20-100 feet of snow? These vigorous young men could barely move around the crash site itself because of the deep heavy snow.
Amazing what we're all capable of when our backs are against the wall.
i understand the conditions they were in were horrific. I'm not sure how i would deal with them myself. but I've hunted all my life. from an early age my father taught me that if you get lost you go down and find a stream and follow it to civilization. that is not true in every case. there location was so remote in the middle of the Andes and the info they were given made them believe they were close to chili. the winter held them back from venturing to far. but why did they go up. i woulda went down and tried to follow a pass out. it might have taken longer but it wouldn't have expended as much energy. again i wasn't there and not sure what i would do. I'd like to think I'd go down the mountain instead of up right after hearing the search was over.
They crashed in the southern hemisphere in November so it was actually summer time, not winter.
Going down was certain death. They hiked up cause of West and they thought (Thxz to the misinformation by the pilot) they where in Chile Curico at civilization.
I suggest you read Piers Paul Read's book, "Alive". They crashed at 11,500 feet altitude. They were in a frozen wasteland of extremely deep perpetual snow. What wasn't under snow was barren rock. They had no winter clothing and only street shoes. And essentially no food except raw human flesh. No water except snow. They could barely move around the crash site because of the extremely deep snow - possibly 20-100 feet deep, before the late spring thaw finally set in, in mid- December.
I've just finished reading Roberto Canessa's (one of the survivors who trekked out) book about the incident. He says the reason they didn't go East, down the mountain, is because they knew that on the other side of the Andes on the East was just desert. In the book Canessa mentions that when he was on top of the mountain and looked East he could make out two black lines, but wasn't sure if they were roads. They actually were roads belonging to a mining colony, but they were much further than the area where they actually met up with Chilean farmers and were rescued. So they may have died if they'd had attempted that route. Another reason they headed West is that the one of the planes Pilot had told them just before he died that he believed that their location was just a few miles from villages in the foothills of Chile. Unfortunately he was actually wrong and they were much further into the mountains than he thought, hence why it took them 10 days to trek out.
@@wrinkleneckbass Actually it was 30 below... blizzards, avalanches, clouds.
how many of you are there after infographics show
It seems youtube didn't save my previous comment, anyway, song is Rebellion (lies) by The Arcade Fire.
The sad thing is there was actually a hotel to the east down the valley with stocks of food, but instead they headed west over more mountains... for anybody whos actually read the book.
What? That hotel had been abandoned 20 years earlier and was nothing but standing block walls and a hot spring. In the winter it would have given even less protection from the weather than the plane.
The location is accurate but those plane parts I'm not 100% sure. They are best guess ;-)
@area51er6 Yeah but it would of been very dangerous for them to get there. They would have had to cross a very large river that would of made it impossible to get across because of the rough rivers so if they went that way its possible more might have died but that is something we may never know.
would have
thanks =)
-34.454680, -70.172103
Is there anyone here after watching the film?
. Any One From 2018
I could never expect this song as a soundtrack, but it somehow fitted perfectly.
too bad u didnt follow the same path nando walked to freedom it would have been interesting to see
If I got it right you wrote it's on wrong side of border but I think the border in google earth is in wrong place. Check: watch?v=29pPVj1AVy8&feature=related#t=1m11s
First of all
DONT FLY IN THAT FUCKING WEATHER IN THE FIRST PLACE. FOOLS.
I wonder why they didnt have a signal fire before they knew the search was called off? They had lighters for cigarettes they could have burned stuff to create black smoke they probably would have been seen in the first couple of days after the crash.
Burn what? Under heavy clouds, below 30 degrees? with only one lighter? Not one tree around, just metal and clothes for freezing weather?
I was thinking there had to have been some materials they didn't need that could have been burned to create black smoke. Plastics, materials from seats but who knows.
They where very ingenious to create sunglasses from the glass of the cockpit, to protect them from the sun. Gustavo Zerbino almost got blind on an expedition. when his got broke, They used the seats for many reasons: Like the covers for blankets, aluminum to melt snow into water, and the cushions to walk on the snow without sinking to the waste. I'm pretty sure they could have figure the smoke. I'm not sure, but they found the lighter later. The movie Alive is not that accurate to be honest, and you wanna read the book: "Miracle in the Andes" by Parrado, You will not put it down.
They had almost zero fuel, only a few wooden cartons. They needed any fabric or padding for warmth, since they had only light clothing in subzero temperatures. Have you tried burning a piece of plastic?
They walked for 9 days after spending all that time there
I would not even imagine what I would do in a situation like that, but Roberto and Nando should've walked out after listening the search for them was over. Along with the remaining survivors, I think these two men are definitely 2 of the mentally strongest men living on this earth.
AND TODAY IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY
3 weeks ago it was the 50th anniversary goddam
The border line is wrong. All the crashing events occurred on Argentinian territory, not Chile as your video suggests.
You are right, google earth had the border line in wrong place back then when I made the video. Now it is correct in google earth.
Such a happy
Little Ditty
About a crash
Where people died
and
were
eaten....
Seriously?! wtf?!
กูแปลถูก?
the had to EAT there freinds
Haha me too I watched the a
Horrible music
so the two wings were at the same place? there is only one location in the description