ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571

Okay kiddo, so there was a group of people from Uruguay, who were mostly a sports team, traveling on a plane to another country for a game. But unfortunately, their plane crashed into a snowy mountain in the Andes Mountains. All the people on the plane were stranded with no way to call for help or rescue.

They were up there for a long time, not knowing if anyone would find them. They were really hungry and cold, and some of them were really hurt. They decided to stick together and try to survive.

After a while, they ran out of food and had to resort to eating the bodies of the people who had died in the crash. It sounds really gross, but they had no other choice if they wanted to survive.

Finally, after weeks of being stranded, two of the people were able to hike down the mountain and find some help. A rescue team was sent with helicopters and was able to find the rest of the people on the plane.

Because these people stuck together and did what they had to do to stay alive, they were able to survive a really terrible situation. It's a story of perseverance and survival.