Real life plane crash inspired Emmy-nominated show Yellowjackets 50 years later
13.09.2022 - 00:49
/ nypost.com
Showtime‘s Emmy-nominated hit “Yellowjackets” tells the story of a team of high school soccer players who survive a harrowing plane crash and must fend for themselves in the wilderness. Ultimately, each surviving woman emerges from the wreckage with her own version of the traumatic events. Fernando Parrado, 72, can relate.
Nearly 50 years ago, he and his rugby teammates were on the ill-fated Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane was carrying 45 passengers when it crashed into the Andes Mountains. 12 died instantly.
The remaining people fought for survival for months, stranded in the snow. By the time they were rescued after 72 days, only 16 men were alive. Parrado remains close with his remaining teammates, but he’s adamant about only sharing his version of the events that transpired and not being interviewed alongside other survivors.“Some create their own histories,” he told The Post.
On October 13, 1972, the Old Christians Club rugby union team chartered a plane to fly from Uruguay to Chile for a tournament and recruited family and friends to join the trip to afford the travel. As the aircraft flew over the Andes nearly crossing over into Chile, the plane crashed into the snowy depths of the mountains. A search team was initially sent out to find the plane but the pilot’s final reports were incorrect and the white plane was nearly unrecognizable in the mounds of white snow.
Parrado spent the first four days following the crash in a coma, believing he was dead. “It was so dark. Darker than black,” he said.
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