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Friday, October 13, 2023

October 13, 1972: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Crashes

Today is Friday the 13th. No matter what you do today, chances are, you won't be as unlucky as the passengers of this plane.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, with 40 passengers and five crew members on board, crashes in the Andes Mountains. Survivors of the crash, many of them members of a rugby team, are forced to eat parts of the deceased since no other food is available. By the time the survivors are rescued on December 23rd, only 16 of them remain. 

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