Flight 52 Documentary Analysis

Although watching this film made me sad, it made me realize what your body and mind can and will do to survive any situation. The body and minds of humans are so amazing that when they are put in these life or death situations, they will willing to survive with anything. On October 1972, Flight 52 went down in the Andes. On this plane was a Rugby team along with peers and family members. They knew that if they were gonna survive they needed warmth. They quickly dug through what was remaining of the luggage and started making things and keeping warm with what clothing they had. What they also had to preserve was what chocolate they found in the suitcases.
That night they struggled to keep warm as well as struggled to sleep, especially with the crying and complaining of all the injured or freezing passengers. These passengers discovered the radio from the plane had been broke during the crash. They had became excited for a little bit when they figured out they had a mechanic on board. With bad news to all of them he couldn’t get the radio to work. Three different search parties had searched for the plane but due to the plane being white, it was hard to see the plane in the snow. The search for the plane and any survivors had been cancelled on the eleventh day.
Which meant they were left without the idea of having animals to hunt for food. When I stated it’s amazing what the body will due to survive, this is what I had meant when the passengers that were left trying to survive had finally made the decision together that they would eat the flesh from the bodies of the passengers that have died. This was a very crucial decision on their part by eating human remains of these passengers that they knew personally. What a few of these men did that I would’ve probably did in this situation was that they decided to climb these mountains and find