Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

ISBN-10
0329032828
ISBN-13
9780329032821
Series
Alive
Category
Aircraft accidents
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
1974
Author
Piers Paul Read

Description

On February 13, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed with a rugby team and twenty-five of the friends and relatives aboard.

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