Cannibal horror plane crash survivor still recalls 'repugnant' human flesh 50 years on

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READ MORE Leah Croucher: Human remains found in house as police launch murder probeThe survivors were rescued after two months when two of them trekked across the treacherous mountain range with no mountaineering gear.

Carlos Paez spoke to the Sunday Times about the months they spent in the freezing mountains.He said: "I've done six million miles on American Airlines," he said, noting his lack of fear of flying."I'm condemned to tell this story forever more, just like the Beatles always having to sing Yesterday."Forty-five people boarded the doomed plane on October 13, 1972, including Montevideo's Old Christians Club's rugby team and its supporters.The survivors made the horrific choice to eat dead passengers after Roberto Canessa, a medical student, suggested they use the bodies of the deceased to sustain them.He said: "Of course, the idea of eating human flesh was terrible, repugnant."It was hard to put in your mouth.

But we got used to it."He said: "In a sense, our friends were some of the first organ donors in the world — they helped to nourish us and kept us alive."There no other option for the young survivors, who said human meat "doesn't taste of anything, really."A glass was used to cut flesh and solace was taken that other people would have done the same if they had survived.Other survivors made a pact that those who lived could eat who had died due to the exposure.He said: "We promised each other that if one of us died, the others were obliged to eat their bodies."The survivors had lost all hope of being rescued.

After two months Canessa and Fernando Parrado headed off to seek help.They filled their rugby socks with human flesh and climbed about three miles down the mountain during a ten-day journey.A multi-day.