{"id":673956,"date":"2022-01-02T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=673956"},"modified":"2023-01-02T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:11:54","slug":"to-play-the-game-a-history-of-flight-571-by-john-guiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/to-play-the-game-a-history-of-flight-571-by-john-guiver\/","title":{"rendered":"To Play The Game: A History of Flight 571: by John Guiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Play The Game: A History of Flight 571: by John Guiver<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive history of the 1972 Andes Flight disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A perfect complement to my 1974 book Alive.&#8217; Piers Paul Read<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/g1-615x922.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>13th October 1972. A Uruguayan Air Force plane, commissioned for a civilian flight, crashes in the Andes. Among the forty passengers are a first-division rugby team, accompanied by family and friends. Hindered by treacherous conditions, the search and rescue efforts cannot locate the wreckage, and are abandoned after eight days.<\/p>\n<p>Ten weeks later, two unkempt boys are spotted by a muleteer high in the Chilean foothills. One throws a note to him, across a mountain torrent: I come from a plane that fell in the mountains&#8230; In the plane there are still fourteen injured people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on extensive original research, the author sheds new light on this extraordinary story from a perspective of fifty years, expanding on events before, during, and after the ordeal. His retelling is enriched by the accounts of those who didn&#8217;t return from the mountain, related through the eyes of their families, bringing much-needed balance to a story which has largely focused on the survivors.<\/p>\n<p>John Guiver&#8217;s comprehensive account, which includes an in-depth look at the world from which the passengers came and an analysis of the possible causes of the accident, is a fundamental contribution to the history of this famous event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-673958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/g2-615x922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/g2-615x922.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/g2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/g2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Play The Game: A History of Flight 571: by John Guiver A comprehensive history of the 1972 Andes Flight disaster. &#8216;A perfect complement to my 1974 book Alive.&#8217; Piers Paul Read 13th October 1972. A Uruguayan Air Force plane, commissioned for a civilian flight, crashes in the Andes. Among the forty passengers are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":673959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674095,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673956\/revisions\/674095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}