Alive: Flight 571 crash site in Google Earth

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).

Song is Rebellion (lies) by The Arcade Fire.

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• 571
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• Andes
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• Miracle

[Austinbit]

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...!

[forzajj]

@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

[pan00liz]

Are those coords correct?

[forzajj]

They are my estimates, could be bit off...

[gpeddino]

I could never expect this song as a soundtrack, but it somehow fitted perfectly.

[forzajj]

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

[Farerets]

All the 16 survivors are still ALIVE!

[assais]

this is the most amazing story i've ever seen

[GIROBOTII]

The Andes are more imposing than I thought.

[1982mp1]

Nandos book is amazing too!!

[Jermz1997]

@Farerets

How about now?

[mackymaca]

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.

[MrLexamana]

It's amazing what human can do in a desperate situation to survive. Pure inspirational! RIP to the victims, and long live the survivors.

[vLeggy]

all based on true story movies are amazing to me...from ALIVE to 127 hours...

[tomkat1983]

An incredible story of survival. I read Alive when I was a teenager in the 70's and couldnt put it down.

[area51er6]

@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

[SolarisDeLuna]

@area51er6 I heard it on one of the documentarys and I actually have never read the book but would like to someday.

[area51er6]

@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.