October Thirteen, Nineteen Seventy-Two, the Fairchild Over the Cordillera, and the Controlled Flight Into Terrain That Became One of Aviation History's Most Haunting Stories
The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was not a mechanical failure - it was a dead reckoning error in the Andes that helped define CFIT risk for every generation of pilots since.
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