What Rhymes With Plane

Flipping through 'Alive' on a rainy afternoon made me dig deeper into what actually caused that crash in the Andes — it’s the sort of story that sticks with you. The short version of the mechanics: on October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a Fairchild FH-227D carrying a rugby team and others, flew into the Andes because the crew misjudged their position and descended too early. Bad weather and clouds hid the mountains, so the pilots thought they had cleared the ridge when they hadn't. Beyond that basic line, the picture gets a little messier. The crew had altered course to avoid turbulence and relied on dead reckoning for position, which is vulnerable when winds are stronger or different than expected. Radio contact and navigation aids weren’t enough to correct the error in time, so the plane hit a mountain slope. The official and retrospective accounts all point to a combination of navigational error, poor visibility, and unfortunate timing — not one single failure but several small problems stacking up. Reading survivor testimonies and the investigative bits made me realize how fragile things can be when human judgment has to work with imperfect instruments and hostile weather. It’s heartbreaking and strangely humbling to think about how different tiny choices can lead to survival or disaster.

I still get a little choked up thinking about that crash, but from a legal perspective the aftermath was far more about investigation and ethics than courtroom drama. Immediately after the accident there were formal inquiries by the authorities involved — because the flight was Uruguayan but the crash site was in the Andes, Chilean and Uruguayan investigators both played roles. The focus was on what went wrong operationally: navigational errors, decision-making in bad weather, and shortcomings in search-and-rescue coordination. The pilots and the military operation that ran the flight were scrutinized, and those reports influenced how people talked about accountability for flights in difficult terrain. On the human side, survivors had to give repeated testimonies explaining the extreme measures they took to stay alive. There were intense ethical debates about cannibalism, but legally the survivors were not prosecuted; investigative authorities recognized the life-or-death context. Over time the story fed into aviation and rescue procedure reviews, and it spawned books like 'Alive' and later 'Miracle in the Andes', which further shaped public sense of what was at stake.

I've always been drawn to survival stories, and the Andes crash is one that stuck with me since I first flipped through 'Alive' on a rainy afternoon. People love simple, dramatic explanations, and that’s where most myths start. One big myth is that the survivors were rampantly savage — in reality, the cannibalism was a deeply agonizing, calculated decision taken to stay alive after everyone else had died. It wasn't mindless; there were rules, discussions, and a moral weight everyone felt. Another persistent myth is that they were simply rescued days after the crash or that they were miraculously found by locals who just wandered by. The truth is messier and slower: search teams gave up, weather and terrain were brutal, and two men had to hike for ten days to find help. I remember thinking how easy it is for movies to compress time until the story feels tidy, but the real timeline was stubbornly prolonged. Reading survivor interviews changed how I view sensational retellings — the humanity and the logistics both matter.

I've watched 'Alive' more times than I care to admit, and as someone who devoured survival memoirs as a teenager I can say the film gets the spine of the story right but compresses and dramatizes a lot. The plane crash, the brutal cold, the avalanche that finished off part of the fuselage, the slow starvation and the agonizing decision to resort to human flesh — those core events happened just as shown. The film leans heavily on Piers Paul Read's book 'Alive' for its narrative, and Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa's real-life trek across the Andes to find help is portrayed with tense fidelity. Where the movie bends truth is in character compression and timeline tightening. People are simplified into archetypes for emotional clarity, some conversations are invented, and a few deaths or moments are shifted for dramatic pacing. Survivors later published their own takes (Nando wrote 'Miracle in the Andes'), and they point out that some psychological nuance and moral complexity got flattened on screen. Also, rescue logistics and local responses are simplified. So if you're looking for a faithful mood and major facts, the film is accurate enough. If you want a forensic, day-by-day reconstruction with every personality and ethical argument intact, read the survivors' accounts and follow-up interviews too — they add texture the movie doesn't always have.

I still get a little twinge reading about that crash—it's one of those stories that hangs in the back of your mind. The plane that went down in the Andes in October 1972 stayed up on that glacier for decades after the survivors were rescued. The people who lived through it used much of what they could for shelter and warmth at the time, tearing seats, panels, and insulation to survive those brutal nights. After the rescue, the harsh environment and remoteness meant there wasn't a big salvage operation to haul everything down; much of the fuselage was left where it lay, half-buried in ice and snow. Over the years the wreck has been revealed and re-buried by shifting ice. Mountaineers and hikers occasionally found personal items, bits of metal, and human remains as the glacier receded. Authorities and families have sometimes intervened to recover newly exposed remains, and bits of wreckage or personal effects have ended up in museums, private collections, or with relatives. The whole episode entered popular culture too—'Alive' gave the story a human frame—and now glacier melt keeps surfacing reminders of that tragedy, which feels oddly modern and unsettling.

'Crows' is a word that pops into my mind. They fly around in flocks, making quite the noise. It's interesting how nature gives them a bad reputation, but they are super smart. 'Prose' also comes to mind, like the written word that flows naturally. There's a nice rhythm to both terms. Just fun little rhymes that I like!

Two words that come to mind that rhyme with 'Jesus' are 'bees us' and 'seizes.' I know it’s a bit quirky, but if you’re being creative with lyrics or poetry, you can make it work!

Great, mate! Also, there's plate and state. Every word has its rhythm, like poetry in motion. You can weave them into lyrics, making something catchy for a song or a poem. These words dance beautifully together!