Independent Lens

Season 10, Episode 23

Episode Title: Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

Air Date: 2009-05-19

Overview:

This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16 young men (of 45 passengers and crew) of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes recall their ordeal, which found them stranded for 72 days on a snowy peak after the search for the plane's wreckage was called off.