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Show 4m - MARMADUKE ir Crash In Andes Changed Mood Into Living Nightmare a team, you wounded boy died on the 20th organized know. day. That evening the food ran out. Sunglasses were improvised The Uruguayans were fortuout of pieces of tinted glass to nate to have an unlimited supprotect their eyes from snow ply of snow. Without water, a glare. -- One of them found a nian will die quickly from detransistor radio, and they But the human hydration. hooked it up to a plane batcannot also exist without body tery. They failed to rig up a a steady supply of protein. Detransmitter, but every mornand losing prived of protein ing they picked up the news it daily through ordinary mefrom Montevideo. They could a man Will die as tabolism only get morning broadcasts inevitably as from dehydrabecause of interference. tion. They buried the dead. As Doctor Horge Sepulveda, a the snow thawed they would noted Chilean psychiatrist, have to them repeatedly. It was only one of the commented later on the detertasks that became a maddeniorating effects of gradual starvation. ing routine. After eight weeks, he We decided we had to do our best to face the situation, explained, "a fast means the loss of more than 90 percent Canessa said. We took out of the bodys fatty tissue. At the dead and buried them in that point the protein content the snow. On the second day at about 10 oclock, we heard is gravely low, and death would be imminent. He two jets and a ' stared thoughtfully at the plane overhead. They made a cross over us and we felt we newspaper photo of the two were saved. We believed that a patrol would come looking for us. But it did not arrive. They flashed pieces of aluminum from the wreckage to signal the planes. The effort was fruitless the fuselage was white and invisible against the snow. Listening to their radio on the eighth day, they heard the sickening news that the search had been abandoned until the spring thaw. The authorities thought the plane would be easier to locate then. It was a foregone conclusion, according to the broadcast, that all of them were dead. They listened . dully, realizing they were Continued from First Page in the world to fly across. The plane hit an air pocket and dropped 3,000 feet in a few seconds. No one is quite sure what happened next. Roberto Canessa. the medical student later walked out of the mountains, remembered that who it was almost uusk when they started suddenly down. We were over Curico, he and the pilot was said, apparently flying with instruments because there was a lot of snow and you couldn't see anything. They told us to fasten our seat belts, and when I looked out the window I saw a thick fog over some hills that seemed very close. Then we turned and I saw a mountain only a few meters away. This seemed impossible, and I told myself we were about to smash. Then I felt the crash and I waited for death. The impact tore my seat loose and the plane was sliding by the side of a hill, and then the people started until the ;lane screaming broke into pieces and a lot of snow came rushing in. After hitting a peak that sheared off one wing and part of the tail section, the had come down on a steep slope that bent into a' deep ravine. Cushioned by drifts of snow that kept it from disintegrating, the plane skidded for over half a mile, plowing off the other wing and demolishing the nose section. When it finally slammed into a huge snowdrift and stopped, there were 9 dead and 11 mortally wounded. The rest, miraculously, were alive. Those who had failed to fasten their seat belts before the crash were blown out the hole in the tail section. The copilot, almost cut in half, was' crying for a pistol to kill himself. He died, begging for water, during the night. Right after we stopped I could hear the wounded Canessa said. screaming, Except for a few bumps on my head, I wasn't hurt. A good friend of mine sitting on didnt have a my right scratch. The one on my left had his leg cut off. There was nothing we could do for him. 1 got up to look for the wounded amidst the twisted steel and the seats that lay scattered around the cabin. There was about 30 feet left of the fueslage, and they searched in the dim glow from the lights that still worked. By some grisly coincidence, most of the Uruguayan dead were women. The only crew member left alive was Carlos Roque, the aircraft mechanic. Most of the wounded had been sitting in the rear. With the nose section tom away and the tail exposed, they were beginning to feel the cold. The temperature was falling rapidly; in a few hoys it would drop to 15 below zero. We took out the dead. Canessa said, and placed the wounded the best way we could in the plane, on mattresses made from seat cushions. Fortunately, one of us ' had a knife. Some men took snow to make water, others made blankets out of seat covers. Then the night surrounded us and w'e were exhausted. Their stomachs cramped from trying to eat the snow. No one slept that first night. Listening to the wounded pleading, a sound that would not cease until the last died 20 days later, they huddled together to keep from freezing to death. 7 the following morning they began functioning as a group. Antonio Vizintm, a law student, would later say, We did not have a leader, not by name. We were On Their depression reached bottom when on the 16th day an avalanche fell on the cabin, killing 7 more people. Those who slept in the overhead luggage rack managed to pull some people from the snow. For Fernando Parrado, a medical student who walked out of the Andes with Canessa, the avalanche was a cruel stroke of fate. His mother and sister, who survived the crash, suffocated under it. After the rescue he was asked about his family in Montevideo. I dont have a family anymore, he said. the avalanche, Recalling Canessa said, All of us were in the plane. We had strung some hanging beds for the wounded. A few more slept in the luggage rack. We had more or less prepared to go to sleep when at 7 oclock we heard two noises that souided like small explosions. I tried to move and couldnt. I could hardly breathe. Time passed slowly with more wounded dying every day. Walled in by the silence of the mountains, they fought against madness. They became obsessed with finding their luggage; some spent weeks combing the snow for their suitcases. At night in a circle they discussed philosophy, religion, love creating therapy sessions. As time passed, their conversation shifted more and more to the subject of food. They made a list of the finest restaurants in Montevideo. Fantastic meals they had were described in great detail. One day they uncovered a package of plastic plates buried in the snow. The discovery set them laughing until they were hysterical. They took photographs of themselves. erected They metal markers in case a plane passed overhead. They invented things for example, the brass bottoms of the seats became sun screens with a trough turned up at their base to hold melted frost. They made excursions, looking for a vyay out. Two of them perished on one of these expeditions. the last Mercifully, A ate today under which an unmarried taxpayer would pay no more income tax than a married couple with the same amount of income. Its sponsors. Sens. Robert W. and Packwood, braham Ribicolf, said under existing law 30 million unmarried taxpayers pay $1.8 billion in taxes they would not have to pay if all taxpayers were treated alike. people pay as much as 20 per cent more in taxes than married people with as much income, they said. 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