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	NOVA \| Archive \| Flight \| PBS
		Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers.
		The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved.
		The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/archive/int_flig.html (307 words)

	Andes - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Andes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This desert plateau, part of the Andes, is grazed by vicunas, animals of the camel family that were once hunted for their wool, but are now protected.
		Rinrijirca is part of the Andes, a long chain of mineral-rich volcanic mountains stretching the length of South America from Columbia to Cape Horn.
		Geologically speaking, the Andes are new mountains, having attained their present height by vertical upheaval of the entire strip of the Earth's crust as recently as the latter part of the Tertiary era and the Quaternary.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Andes (879 words)

	Powell's Books - Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
		He would challenge the Andes, even though he was certain the effort would kill him, telling himself that even if he failed he would die that much closer to his father.
		Miracle in the Andes — a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath — is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure: it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
		High in the Andes, with a fractured skull, eating the flesh of his teammates and friends, Parrado calmly ponders the cruelties of fate, the power of the natural world and the possibility of continued existence.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1400097673-3 (1916 words)

	airodyssey.net - "A Thousand Heroes" ("Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232")
		This is the story of a city fully prepared for any air disaster, a commercial airliner which lost all hydraulic systems, an experienced Captain, and over 370 souls on board...
		This is all one of the numerous safety drills at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, one of the best-prepared cities in case of a disaster.
		Minneapolis Center advises flight 232 that the closest airport with a long enough runway for a DC-10 is Des Moines (170 miles), but even closer is Sioux City (70 miles).
	www.airodyssey.net /articles/movie-flt232.html (1266 words)

	Dreambook - Andes Salt Expeditions
		Andes Salt Expeditions will not be responsible for any costs incurred by passengers for such occurrences and circunstances.
		They are responsible for bringing the right equipment and clothing necessary for the trip as stated in the equipment list supplied by v so that their health and well being is not in jeopardy due to inadequacies of such.
		Andes Salt Expeditions doesn't assume liability or responsibility for securing the services of any doctor for any of their trips nor is it liable for any medical emergency and evacuation costs incurred by any trip participant.
	www.andes-salt-uyuni.com.bo /contratc.htm (1297 words)

	CNN - There was no hope - Dec 28, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A statement from Colombia's Civil Aviation Authority said the pilot of Flight 965 apparently failed to release the plane's speed brakes, located on the wings, as he revved the plane's engines to avoid smashing into a mountain.
		The brakes had been applied in a pre-landing procedure as the flight was just four minutes away from its destination -- Cali -- but with the speed brakes on, the plane's ability to climb or maneuver was limited, the statement said.
		The authority's statement was based on information culled from the flight voice and data recorders.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9512/colombia_crash/12-28/index.html (439 words)

	Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known less formally as the Andes flight disaster, was an airline flight carrying 45 people that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972.
		The second helicopter arrived at daybreak on December 23, and with that, all sixteen survivors were rescued.
		The first book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, (published two years after their rescue) was written by Piers Paul Read who interviewed the survivors and their families.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andes_flight_disaster (3034 words)

	McLeod & Heinrichs - Planes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		American Airlines Flight 965 was a scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia.
		Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia on December 20, 1995.
		On that day, the flight used N651AA, a Boeing 757 (previously flown by Eastern Airlines, which sold its South American routes to American in 1990), carrying 156 passengers and 8 crew members.
	www.mcleodlaw.com /planes.htm (227 words)

	Aviation Lawyers \| Aviation Attorneys \| Aviation Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Andes flight disaster of 1972, in which the passengers who survived the crash had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive.
		Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, France to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York, which crashed on July 25, 2000, in Gonesse, France shortly after takeoff, killing all on board and four on the ground.
		West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashed in a mountainous region in northwest Venezuela on the morning of Tuesday, August 16, 2005, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew.
	www.lawyers-aviation.com /aviation-accident-well-known.html (1124 words)

	Asia Pacific Network for Disaster Mitigation Using Earth Observation Satellite(Andes)(1)- Forest Fire Detection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Severe natural disasters are often cause by global climate changes and they are becoming worse, and damage of human activities is increasing.
		ANDES project supported by ACT-JST and started since 1998 aims to develop the operational systems for mitigating the disasters.
		ANDES project (http://www.affrc.go.jp/ANDES/) is an international project on research and development applying advanced computational science and technology, cooperative project of Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, National Institute of Agricultural Environment Study, Meteorological Research Institute, Computer Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research, National Space Development Agency and Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST).
	www.gisdevelopment.net /aars/acrs/2000/ts8/hami0012.asp (1093 words)

	Disaster/Rescue Page
		The pilot reportedly radioed that he was revising his flight plan to make an emergency landing due to icing conditions.
		Disaster management experts said that the death toll may rise as search and rescue operations continue.
		Flight 352 had been approaching the city of Irkutsk for a scheduled refueling stop.
	www.emergency.com /disaster.htm (12739 words)

	March 2005 - Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Being comparatively low lying and also further away from the cooling air of the Andes, the wines from the area are ripe, rich and deeply colored.
		There is none of the run-off from the Andes that Mendoza enjoys and the vineyards rely on underground springs for irrigation.
		Argentina’s terroir is born of the eroded Andes.
	home.earthlink.net /~marknjoey/id60.html (8337 words)

	David Mamet Review
		But their biggest obstacle is a moral one: the devout Catholics must decide whether or not to cannibalize their dead in order to stay alive and find a way down the mountain.
		Cannibalizing one plane to build another is the key to survival in "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1966).
		The crash in the Arabian desert occurs early on, leaving the film to focus on the moral, physical, and emotional conflicts among the survivors.
	webpages.charter.net /jbunin/files/reviews/disasters.html (638 words)

	Alive: The Miracle of the Andes - Definition, explanation
		Alive: The Miracle of the Andes is a 1993 movie directed by Frank Marshall that narrates this story which is one of (if not the most) notable cases of surviving cannibalism in modern history.
		The movie was based on the book "Alive" by Piers Paul Read which was based on the Andes flight disaster.
		The plane crashed in the Andes near the border between Chile and Argentina.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/al/alive__the_miracle_of_the_andes.php (388 words)

	FlightSim.Com: Celebrating Women's History Month
		After so much historical pay inequity in the cabin among male and female flight attendants, inquiring minds want to know if equal pay for equal work is the norm on the flight deck.
		Her hopes to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean were dashed by two crashes of a Lockheed Vega in 1931.She was severely injured in that crash and again in 1932.
		Laura's best-known flights were made in 1934 and earned her a Harmon Trophy as the most outstanding female aviator of the year.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/feature/whm20064.htm (1632 words)

	THE DEMANDS OF HUMANITY: ARMY MEDICAL DISASTER RELIEF: ACTIVISM ABROAD: FOREIGN DISASTER RELIEF, 1945-1976
		The fact that the first provisions for routine disaster assistance abroad were contained in acts devoted to trade development and security helped to underscore the importance of economic and political motives to American humanitarian activities in the postwar world.
		While the American units awaited transportation to the scene of the disaster, their leaders met with Chilean officials, the American ambassador, and members of the Survey team, who were back from the scene.
		In a disaster in which a hospital was needed, the casualty load might peak and the need for a hospital decline in the time it took the survey team to report and a hospital to mobilize, move to the scene, and become operational.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/misc/disaster/ch8.htm (9760 words)

	Single Types or Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some of the salvageable parts from Flight 401 were used on other Eastern L-1011s and those parts may have resulted in the ghostly apparitions of Flight 401's captain and flight engineer on subsequent L-1011 flights.
		The Electra disasters were due to a phenomenon known as "whirl-mode" which was caused by the flexing of the engine pylons/nacelles in turbulence.
		The frequency of this oscillation was sympathetic with that of the wing structure and, as the oscillation became unstable (increasing in magnitude), it resulted in structural failure and wing separation.
	courses.unt.edu /madden/WWW/bib3d.html (2626 words)

	emse232
		Aided by French air disaster experts, Luxembourg civil aviation officials also searched for clues amid the wreckage of the twin-engine Fokker 50 in a field where it rammed into the ground as it prepared for landing on Wednesday morning.
		John Engler is requesting federal disaster assistance for farmers who have suffered fruit, field or vegetable crop losses due to extreme weather this year.
		The governor is requesting the aid from the U.S. secretary of agriculture for farmers in 14 Upper and 19 Lower Peninsula counties, Dan Wyant, director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture, said in a news release Thursday.
	www.seas.gwu.edu /~emse232/disasternovember.html (4663 words)

	The Greatest Gift--September 1985
		The 1926 Air Corps Pan American Goodwill Flight was a story of triumph, tragedy, and unsurpassed heroism on the part of a young captain.
		The Air Corps chose the Loening OA-1 amphibian, a new observation plane, for the flight and Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, one of the early Army pilots, as its commander.
		The flight had crossed the Andes from Valdivia, Chile, to Bahia Blanca on the Argentine coast, navigating with rudimentary instruments through very heavy weather.
	www.afa.org /magazine/valor/0985valor_print.html (801 words)

	Dispatch: Paragliding the Andes \| Outside Online
		One such place is the northern Andes of Chile and Argentina, a jagged landscape dominated by tight canyons, toothy peaks, and violent winds.
		The two-hour, 15-mile flight saw the duo soaring up to 15,000 feet on thermals and updrafts as they corkscrewed around glaciated mountains where any mishap could have been fatal.
		Gadd and Santacroce's December 17 flight was actually planned only as a quick test run above Portillo, but once in the air, they realized they'd caught an ideal weather window.
	outside.away.com /outside/news/200406/paragliding_andes.html (389 words)

	eBooks.com - Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home eBook
		In school we learned that the Andes range was the most extensive mountain system in the world, running the length of South America from Venezuela in the north to the southern tip of the continent in Tierra del Fuego.
		I also knew that the Andes are the second-highest mountain range on the planet; in terms of average elevation, only the Himalayas are higher.
		Our destination, Santiago, lies almost exactly due west of Mendoza, but the region of the Andes that separates the two cities is one of the highest sections of the entire chain, and home to some of the tallest mountains in the world.
	www.ebooks.com /ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=244488 (2941 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Balloonist Fossett crosses Andes
		American adventurer Steve Fossett is crossing the Andes on the latest stage of his attempt to become the first person to balloon solo non-stop around the world.
		Mr Fossett's latest record-setting attempt is his fifth solo balloon flight since February, 1995, when he became the first balloonist to fly single-handedly across the Pacific.
		His previous attempt to fly solo around the world ended in disaster when he was forced to ditch in the South Pacific in August, 1998.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1494751.stm (410 words)

	[No title]
		The state of the mercury in his barometer, together with the appearance of the heavens in the southwest, must be carefully watched.
		These winds, coming from the cold summits of the Andes, sweep first across an undulating, then a flat country; and, meeting no obstacle to break their force, do great damage to the settlements about Buenos Ayres, as well as to the shipping in the River Plata, and are felt many miles out to sea.
		This instrument is called the picano grande, and it requires a skillful hand in its guidance, in consequence of its weight and the constant oscillatory motion when the wagon is moving.
	www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/nhb/pampas.txt (19815 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home: Books: Nando Parrado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The plane is cut in two, one half plummets from the sky only to crash among the towering peaks of the Andes, while the other half--carrying survivors--hits the incline of a snow-covered mountain and dives deep into a valley.
		Miracle in the Andes is not just a story of survival; it is a story of the lengths a person will go to save a friend.
		I was 8 years old when I first read about the horrendous crash in the Andes and the subsequent journey by 2 of the survivors to get help.
	www.amazon.co.uk /gp/product/0752871935?tag=technically0b-21&link_code=sp1&camp=2025&dev-t=0T1Q3KQYBRP8TS6YAFR2 (1385 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors: Books: Piers Paul Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The boys themselves had their own sort of society in that valley in the Andes -- not everyone was helpful or had the instinct for survival and none of them had ever been through this kind of hardship, but they made it work and their system kept 16 of them alive for 72 days.
		They had their share of so much bad luck (not knowing where they were, the expeditionaries took a longer/harder route to civilisation; their parents had the right idea of their location a few times but looked elsewhere) and some good luck (they did not lose a single boy in their many expeditions).
		By their tenth day in the Andes, the limited food supplies, which they had rationed with all the care of a miser, had virtually run out.
	www.amazon.co.uk /gp/product/0099432498?tag=technically0b-21&link_code=sp1&camp=2025&dev-t=0T1Q3KQYBRP8TS6YAFR2 (1401 words)

	[No title]
		The story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue, finally told by one of the heroes who saved his team-mates.
		When Nando Parrado took off on a flight from Uruguay to Chile with his rugby team-mates, he was looking forward to an enjoyable weekend break, and had invited his mother and sister along for the trip.
		Then disaster struck, as their plane crashed into a mountain.
	www.orionbooks.co.uk /MP-39946/Miracle-In-The-Andes.htm (260 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| No survivors in Ecuador air disaster
		The jet vanished in dense fog over the Andes on the Ecuador-Colombia border on Monday.
		The plane was carrying 83 passengers, including seven children, as well as seven crew and two mechanics.
		The plane took off from Ecuador's capital Quito and was bound for the border town of Tulcan, from where it was scheduled to fly on to the Colombian city of Cali.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1789161.stm (443 words)

	Alive (1993 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is based upon Piers Paul Read's acclaimed 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (which itself was based upon interviews with survivors of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on October 13, 1972).
		One of the survivors, Nando Parrado, (portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the film) served as the technical advisor to the film.
		The film tells the story of the Uruguayan Rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College (Montevideo)) and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alive:_The_Miracle_of_the_Andes (308 words)

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