Movie《Extremis Covenant》Introduction to the real story behind it

As the broadcast popularity of "Extremis Covenant" continues to rise, I believe it will become the most worth watching in the near future and will also become an important center of public discussion.The introduction to the true story behind the movie - Covenant - has been the most discussed recently.The following is some content compiled by the editor for you.

The true story behind the movie《The Covenant》is:Andean plane crash.

The incident originated on October 12, 1972, when an amateur rugby team in Uruguay rented Air Force Air Force No. 571 and planned to go to Santiago, the capital of Chile, to participate in a rugby match.

On the eve of departure, the captain told his teammates that there were ten empty seats on the plane. If anyone wanted to bring family or friends, they could travel with them for free.

So team member Nando Parrado took his mother and sister on the journey.Unexpectedly, a cruel life and death farewell was waiting for them.

When the plane carrying 45 team members and relatives flew near the Andes Mountains, it encountered bad weather.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on October 13, the plane suddenly began to turbulence and gradually deviated from the route.

Due to dense clouds over the Andes Mountains, the plane eventually hit a mountain peak, the tail of the plane was knocked off, and the front half of the fuselage slipped from the mountain and came to rest on thick snow.

Five passengers died on the spot and seven others, including the two pilots, are missing.

Memories from Parrado:

For the first few hours after the crash, I felt almost nothing. As I slowly regained consciousness, I slowly reached out to touch my head and found that my hair was stuck together with dried blood.

Two of my best friends and my mother are dead, and my 19-year-old sister is dying.

On the eighth day after the crash, Parrado's sister stopped breathing.

At the time, Parrado was only 22 years old, and most of his teammates were promising students between the ages of 18 and 22.

As they prepared to participate in a rugby match, they started a battle with death before they could appreciate life.

After the crash, the surviving team captain summoned the less injured personnel to rescue the passengers trapped in the fuselage. Medical students Roberto and Gustavo were responsible for caring for the injured.

At that time, a team member was pierced through the abdomen with a 6-inch steel pipe. When Gustavo yanked the steel pipe out of his body, even his intestines were pulled out several inches...

The Andes Mountains are covered with snow all year round, and at night, the coldest temperature can reach minus 30 degrees Celsius.On the night of the crash, five more seriously injured people died in the extremely cold weather.

The survivors did not bring cold-proof clothing and hiking shoes, let alone mountaineering goggles; in order to prevent snow blindness, 24-year-old Strauch made simple sunglasses from the pilot cabin visor to protect everyone's eyes. He was also the final survivor16One of the survivors.

People moved the bodies outside the cabin and used the impact fuselage as a shelter.They blocked the holes in the plane with broken wooden chairs and suitcases, and then filled the gaps with snow.

They took off all the airplane seat covers and connected them together, wrapping them around themselves to keep warm; at night, they slept huddled together, face to face, letting the hot breath warm each other.

Some people brought lighters, but they could not find anything to burn, so they had to burn nearly 7,500 US dollars in banknotes they carried with them to keep warm. However, they still could not prevent their companions from dying in such bad weather.

In addition to the extremely cold weather, starvation is also fatal to these survivors.

On the 10th day of the crash, the remaining 27 survivors heard the news from the radio found on the plane that search and rescue operations had been stopped (because the aircraft body was white and blended in with the snowy mountains; although the survivors used onlyI tried to write SOS on the top of the cabin with the lipstick I saved, and used the suitcases to form the words SOS, but it still didn’t work...).

By this time, the canned sardines, chocolates and other food they had carried with them had long been eaten up.

At first, they gnawed off the cowhide on the suitcases and the straw under the airplane seat cushions to eat; they used the metal plates on the cabin seats to hold snow, and melted it into water in the sun to quench their thirst.But soon, there was nothing left to eat.

In despair, they realize that only human flesh can keep them alive.Parrado recalled: "Someone looked at me and said, I want to eat the pilot."

That evening, the 27 surviving people formed a circle with their hands and made a “terror agreement” - “if I die, you can eat me”.

In this way, the survivors began to feed themselves on corpses.Initially, they entered through the bodies of unfamiliar and unrelated pilots, but after eating all the pilots, they could only start eating their dead relatives and friends.

The food crisis has been temporarily alleviated, but the test of death has once again made these survivors feel desperate.

On the 17th day after the crash, an avalanche immediately claimed the lives of eight people and destroyed the wreckage of the cabin on which they relied for survival.

Another 19 people climbed out of the snowdrift after being trapped in the cabin for three days. On November 15, 34 days after the crash, three more weak and injured people died, leaving only 16 survivors.

Parrado is still frightened when he thinks of the scene at that time: "Waiting is full of fear. From a certain perspective, waiting means being sentenced to death.I kept telling myself that I had to get out of here as soon as possible."

On December 12, the 61st day after the plane crash, the three survivors, including Parrado, decided to take the most risky step and the only possible step: climbing over the mountains to the west in search of rescue.

Their idea is simple, instead of sitting still and waiting to die, they should keep walking until they stop breathing.

After nine days of arduous trek, enduring extreme exhaustion and freezing temperatures late at night, Parrado and his companions finally walked out of the mountain snow line and entered the river valley.

On December 20, they saw the figure of a man on horseback; three days later, on December 23, a rescue helicopter rescued all survivors.

The rescue of 16 survivors was called the "Andean miracle."

For these 16 survivors to survive two months after the crash, it should have been a happy ending.But when the world knew that they survived by eating human flesh, it caused huge controversy.

People called them “cannibals”“demons”, which made the survivors who were suffering from cannibalism even more painful.

In 1974, the book "Alive: Stories of Survivors of the Andes Air Crash" was published, which tells the story of the survivors' 72 days of survival in the Andes.

Survivor Canessa said in the book: "Surviving on cannibalism was the most painful experience in my life. I asked myself whether it was worth it, and the answer was yes.This is done so that the living can continue to survive. If my body were on the ground at that time, I would also expect you to do the same thing."

Parrado:“My mother and sister are dead, and my father is the only motivation for me to live.”

Regarding eating the corpses of his companions, Parrado said: "Under those circumstances, the rules of human society no longer belong to us. The rules in the mountains are determined by nature. We must adapt to these rules in order to survive."“

Parrado later returned to the Andes many times to lay flowers on the graves of his mother, sister and friends, and 34 years later he wrote the book Miracles in the Andes.

”The cannibalism“ brought great mental torture to Roberto, but in the dangerous situation, he also had a strong desire to survive: ”In order to see his mother and girlfriend, I do not regret eating human flesh.Looking at my friends dying one after another around me, I have no choice.Maybe it's because I'm studying medicine. I know that my friend's body is actually energy, protein, and fat... In my mind, I think it's my friend who wants us to continue living. I regard myself as the continuation of my friend's life.%

On October 13, 2012, 16 survivors gathered in San Diego and played a game 40 years too late with former football players.

During the ceremony, parachutists wrapped in Uruguayan and Chilean flags landed on the court from helicopters, and survivors burst into tears as officials unveiled photos of the victims.

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