Flight 571 News Today

“Society of the Snow” is narrated by Numa Turcatti, who survived the initial crash depicted in the movie. Here is what happened to him and his cause of death.

The 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and the passengers’ fight for survival are the subject of a new Netflix movie streaming January 4.

>> reporter: two british south american airways jets and their 51 passengers disappeared in the infamous bermuda triangle in the 1940s. also that decade, five american bombers on a training mission vanished in the bermudas. even the search plane went missing all without a trace and still unsolved. then theres this, the flying tiger line. >> it went off in 1952 near guam, flying tiger line went off the radar, gone, disappeared. >> no wreckage. >> no. >> reporter: it was 1962. a u.s. military flig...

Guam, flying tiger line went off the radar, gone, disappeared. >> no wreckage. >> no. >> reporter: it was 1962. a u.s. military flight with more than 90 people on board unsolved. the crash of uruguay air force flight 571 was so mysterious that hollywood depicted the tale in the movie "alive." in 1972 the plane crashed in the andes mountains. the survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive until they were found. this mystery solved after 72 days. >> what are historians and bloggers saying rig...