Andes Plane Crash Survivor Spearheads Motivational Speaking Career After 72 Days of Tragedy
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY – Fernando Parrado, a survivor of the 1972 Andes plane crash, spent two months trapped in the mountains with fellow survivors after the aircraft went down. Parrado, 74, was traveling with family and friends at the time of the crash. Fernando “Nando” Seler Parrado Dolgay, now 74, is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The flight was carrying members of an amateur rugby team and their family …