Survival in the Andes

[Piloto]

Survival in the Andes after eating your friends. This a true 1972 story after a plane crash in the Andes. Enjoy it.

José

[kpaul]

That is a really good book - the movie SUCKS!

[Hank]

I read the book when it originally came out, with pictures. It's a good one. Don't know about the movie . . . 

[Piloto]

I read the story on the news when I was in college. Spanish TV interviews of the survivors were the major headlines. From the survivors accounts it appears that the plane descended too early into fog. With no GPS it was very difficult to assess position in the Andes. It appears they got a low height warning from the GPWS but in steep terrain this was too late. What puzzle me is that onboard radar on ground scanning (tilt down MAP mode) would have shown the mountains ahead and alert them on time. Before the days of GPS maritime/airborne radar was used extensively for navigation. It could spot very small islands dozens of miles away.

http://twinandturbine.com/article/airborne-radar-for-navigation/

José

 

Edited August 27, 2017 by Piloto

[N6758N]

If you have one of @Marauders girls on board when you crashed at least you wouldn't go hungry...

[mike_elliott]

14 minutes ago, N6758N said:

If you have one of @Marauders girls on board when you crashed at least you wouldn't go hungry...

No need to feed the whole village for a year...

[thinwing]

Well so much for lunch...my appetite is totally ruined