It was a
national tragedy that stunned the world - and for more than 50 years the exact
whereabouts of a plane that crashed in Chile carrying a group of football stars
remained a mystery.
Now climbers
in the Andes mountain range say they have found the wreckage of the LAN Chile
Douglas DC-3 that went down April 3, 1961 with 24 people on board.
The doomed aircraft's twisted remains were discovered
high up in Maule, about 190 miles south of capital city Santiago by a group of
mountaineers. Human bones were also 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.
Members of the top division Chilean team, Queen Cross, several of whom were in the plane when it crashed in 1961
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