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Andes Mountains plane crash survivor says cannibalism wasn’t worst part of ordeal

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A chilling film recently premiered on Netflix: Society of the Snow, depicting the 1972 plane crash involving 45 people — including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay — in the South American wilderness.

The film depicts the survivors spent between the to survive. But survivor Roberto Canessa, who was 19 at the time of the crash, told on Friday that resorting to cannibalism wasn’t the worst part of the ordeal.

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