Among the survivors of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 aircraft crash in the Andes Mountain Range stated the group had a pact before turning to cannibalism to make it through.
Carlos ‘Carlitos’ Páez Rodriguez was among 45-people onboard the aircraft that crashed into the mountains.
Of those on board, just 16 made it off the mountainwith the rest either passing away in the crash, catching their injuries or being eliminated when an avalanche struck the fuselage of the aircraft the survivors were safeguarding in.
The 16 that did live were required to turn to cannibalism after the percentage of food materials on board the airplane went out – the survivors cut ‘matchstick sized’ piece of flesh from those who had actually passed away and left it to dry in the sun.
Rodriguez was simply 18 when the airplane crashed, and in fact turned 19 while stranded.
Throughout their time stuck on the mountainthe males discovered that search efforts to attempt and find them had actually been cancelled, and they chose to send out 2 of the guys out to attempt and make it back to civilisation and raise the alarm.
The fish story has actually now been developed into a Netflix movie Society of the Snowwhich centres on the traumatic event.
In an interview for LADbible’s Minutes With series, Rodriguez stated that the 16 guys made a pact before consuming human flesh.
He discussed: “When we got the news on day 10 that the search had actually been cancelled, that’s when it began to occur to all of us at the very same time that our only possible choice was to feed upon our dead fellow traveler since there was no other method.
“The very first thing we did was make a solemn pact in between us all that if any of us were to pass away, the others might utilize their bodies.
“And the 2nd thing we did was to select the medical trainees, who had actually accepted their function as medical professionals, to look after the matter, and they looked after it.
“The bad medical trainees. They were very first year trainees, who had actually never ever seen dead individuals in the past, however as they ‘d accepted their function and they ‘d truly considered themselves medical professionals, they stepped up to the job. And we fixed one problem that required to be solved, since we still had the most spiritual of all rights: the right to life and the right to return home.”