Missing Chilean Soccer Team Plane Found 54 Yrs Later

Chilean mountaineers have found passengers’ bones and the wreckage of a plane carrying Chilean national soccer team which disappeared more than 50 years ago. The missing plane’s wreckage was found some 215 miles from Santiago. The discovery solves a decades-old South American mystery.

Human bones were found scattered in the area amid parts of the broken plane.

Amazingly, pictures taken at the supposed crash site show pieces of the aircraft extraordinarily-well preserved after 54 years in the mountains

The expedition's leader, Leonardo Albornoz, said: 'The plane is more than 3,200 meters up the mountain. Quite a bit of the fuselage is still there, a lot of things scattered over the area including human bones.

'So this story is getting a rewrite since this is not where original accounts said.' the original interpol theory was a suspected terrorist hijack.

The plane crash brings to mind a widely publicized disaster that followed in 1972, when a Uruguayan aircraft carrying a rugby team went down in the Andes in Argentina, near the border with Chile. The plane’s survivors became the inspiration for numerous documentaries, movies and books, most notably the 1993 film “Alive,” which was based on a book by the same name.