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Cleita

(75,480 posts) Sun Mar 23, 2014, 04:46 PM Mar 2014

Remember the October 1972 air plane crash in the Andes? [View all]

It took them 72 days to find the survivors, who had crashed in a remote and nearly inaccessible region of the Andes.

http://www.viven.com.uy/571/Eng/accidente.asp

Watch the video at the website. The reason I post this is that it may take months to find out what happened to Flight MH370. In this case I'm not really hoping for survivors, but I'm sure it will be found in time.

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Remember the October 1972 air plane crash in the Andes? [View all] Cleita Mar 2014 OP

and we've made no advances in technology since '72 NightWatcher Mar 2014 #1

I do have a suspicion that the authorities know something we don't. Cleita Mar 2014 #2

Considering the US has committed 1 plane and one ship Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #3

So you think the US knows the plane crashed, and generally where, but morningfog Mar 2014 #6

Considering all the initial signs were terrorism, the operators of the global war on terror Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #15

My tinfoil is not that tight nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #10

The Gyre is in the pacific way far away from the indian ocean and the malay coast. Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #16

There are more than these two nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #17

My brother thinks we will find it. MissB Mar 2014 #5

I get the feeling it's in a hanger someplace and the passengers still alive in Cleita Mar 2014 #8

That's close to his guess too. MissB Mar 2014 #12

... Spider Jerusalem Mar 2014 #13

Perhaps they need to put Spirochete Mar 2014 #19

The survivors were not actually found, two walked out and found help. Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #4

That was a good book. n/t Cleita Mar 2014 #9

Read it. They were forced to eat the dead to survive. n/t RebelOne Mar 2014 #20

Yes. They did. It was also all over the news when they were rescued. n/t Cleita Mar 2014 #21

So nobody will walk down from Churubusco nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #7

Movies being what they are. They won't be that factual. Cleita Mar 2014 #11

They made it on the cheap nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #14

Or Peruvian LANSA Flight 508, December 1971 frazzled Mar 2014 #18