The Impact/Effect of the Andes Plane Crash
The Andes plane crash survivors have had some lasting impacts on their lives, whether it be minor or mental.
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The Uruguayan survivors met relatives of the trapped miners at the San Jose mine before speaking to the miners via video. They said they had come to show their solidarity with the miners, as well as to express their thanks to Chile for rescuing them 38 years ago.And they said they were confident the miners would come out alive. It is proof that man can survive the most difficult situations and they will survive" said Pedro Algorta, Plane crash survivor "In the same way we were able to get off the mountain and lead normal lives, they too will get out and lead fantastic lives," said Pedro Algorta, one of the plane crash survivors," (BBC). The Andes survivors weren't aware if there was any support given to them in 1972. On the other hand, The survivors knew that the chilean miners trapped had the capacity in them to survive as the Andes survivors had.
The Uruguayan survivors met relatives of the trapped miners at the San Jose mine before speaking to the miners via video. They said they had come to show their solidarity with the miners, as well as to express their thanks to Chile for rescuing them 38 years ago.And they said they were confident the miners would come out alive. It is proof that man can survive the most difficult situations and they will survive" said Pedro Algorta, Plane crash survivor "In the same way we were able to get off the mountain and lead normal lives, they too will get out and lead fantastic lives," said Pedro Algorta, one of the plane crash survivors," (BBC). The Andes survivors weren't aware if there was any support given to them in 1972. On the other hand, The survivors knew that the chilean miners trapped had the capacity in them to survive as the Andes survivors had.
"If I'm sitting in a hotel lobby, I might think, 'What if a bomb goes off?' I think about the things that could go wrong and wonder how I'd react. " He glances at a fork on our table and hands it to me. "Feel that. It's a sturdy fork. Good for digging. I notice things like that. I will say to myself, 'We could have used that fork on the mountain.' "(Telegraph Media Group). Going through a tragedy can mess with the mind and cause changes in it. The change wasn't an extreme change, but enough to see the difference in the pattern of thought.
"I sleep like a baby," he says, with an easy shrug. "No nightmares. Except the ones I had when we were in the mountains and thought we couldn't get out. People always want me to talk about the hunger, but the thirst and the cold were much worse for me. Our lips were cracked and bleeding and every drop of cold water was painful to drink." (Telegraph Media Group). The survivors have mostly recovered from the tragic event. We can't just assume the what the hardest part about there experience was, but rather feel what they felt to realize what the ongoing struggle was.