October 13: The 1972 Andes Flight Disaster

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Many people try to survive every day and that can be very arduous. Your solution in survival inside nature can be feeding on animals or eating anything in your sight; But, when you face survival anywhere you must solve the problem.
In October 13, 1972 a plane crashed into the Andes known as “The 1972 Andes Flight Disaster”. One quarter of the passengers died due to the wreckage and some other passengers died because of an avalanche. The remaining passengers were starving without any food and resorted to cannibalism. Most of the passengers were Roman Catholic so they opposed the idea, but they knew that they would die if they didn’t eat. Finally, in December 23, 1972 sixteen remaining passengers got rescued. Their survival choices were both

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