Alive and Hungry......What would you have done.... ( Archived) (124)

vinny1967: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known less formally as the Andes flight disaster, was an airline flight carrying 45 people that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. The event was concluded by December 23, 1972, when the last of 16 survivors were rescued. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several survivors of the initial impact had died of cold and injuries by the next day.

The remaining survivors had very little food and no way to make heat in the harsh climate, over 10,000 feet altitude. Faced with starvation the survivors eventually fed on the dead passengers who were preserved in the snow. Rescue teams were not aware of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 12 day trek across the treacherous Andes mountains, found a Chilean huaso who guided them to safety where help was found for the other survivors still trapped at the crash site.

This story always fascinated me. What would you have done in this situation. Would you have fed on the Dead bodies to survive ?

I think I would have......

gozoman2: ......and just for the record.....the survivors ended up with no fuel or anything else to make fires if not mistaken.....

...they cut the meat in strips and placed them on metal parts of the plane in the sun to make it edible.....

....so think again ladies...certainly no roast.....

gozoman2: ......and just for the record.....the survivors ended up with no fuel or anything else to make fires if not mistaken.....

...they cut the meat in strips and placed them on metal parts of the plane in the sun to make it edible.....

....so think again ladies...certainly no roast.....

Tamarin: Off course we would look for the young and tender meat first....

So you are safe Hun...

gozoman2: ......and just for the record.....the survivors ended up with no fuel or anything else to make fires if not mistaken.....

...they cut the meat in strips and placed them on metal parts of the plane in the sun to make it edible.....

....so think again ladies...certainly no roast.....

COSMICDUST: The instinct of conservation is a awesome defense system against giving up life, but we cannot picture our survival capability until phisycally faced with an extreme situation.

Paradoxically someone, somewhere, is facing such situation right now.
We are animals first, and then intelligent beings.

hopefloats: Honestly? I have a very weak stomach these days. I just don't know if I could even stomach the thoughts...........