Real life plane crash inspired Emmy-nominated show Yellowjackets 50 years later
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nypost.comShowtime‘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.
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