The document summarizes the events of an airplane crash in the Andes mountains in 1972. A plane carrying 45 people from Uruguay crashed in the Andes after being diverted to Argentina due to bad weather. All 45 people on board were believed dead after the crash, but some survived by eating the flesh of deceased passengers over the next two months before being rescued. The document then provides brief biographies of some of the survivors decades later and references books and films about the tragedy.