To prevent snow blindness, he improvised sunglasses using the sun visors in the pilot's cabin, wire, and a bra strap. The survivors found a small transistor radio jammed between seats on the aircraft, and Roy Harley improvised a very long antenna using electrical cable from the plane. The Chilean military photographed the bodies and mapped the area. We have been walking for 10 days. [32][26], When the news broke out that people had survived the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, the story of the passengers' survival after 72 days drew international attention. [10] The aircraft's VOR/DME instrument displayed to the pilot a digital reading of the distance to the next radio beacon in Curic. The aircraft carried 40 passengers and five crew members. Search efforts were cancelled after eight days. "I would ask myself: is it worth doing this? Then, "he began to climb, until the plane was nearly vertical and it began to stall and shake. I tried to enjoy my friend, my dog, my passions, a second at a time," said Parrado, who has since worked as a TV host, race car driver and motivational speaker. The film explores the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. Valeta survived his fall, but stumbled down the snow-covered glacier, fell into deep snow, and was asphyxiated. We were 29 people at the first. Director Ren Cardona Writers Charles Blair Jr. (book) Ren Cardona Jr. Stars Pablo Ferrel Hugo Stiglitz Witness accounts and evidence at the scene indicated the plane struck the mountain either two or three times. If I die please use my body so at least one of us can get out of here and tell our families how much we love them.". Por favor, no podemos ni caminar. Given the cloud cover, the pilots were flying under instrument meteorological conditions at an altitude of 18,000 feet (5,500m) (FL180), and could not visually confirm their location. One of the team members, Roy Harley, was an amateur electronics enthusiast, and they recruited his help in the endeavour. Surrounded by corpses frozen in the snow the group made the decision to eat from the bodies to stay alive. Members of the amateur Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, were scheduled to play a match against the Old Boys Club, an English rugby team in Santiago, Chile. As he began to descend, the aircraft struck a mountain, shearing off both wings and the tail section. He said the experience scarred him but gave him a new-found appreciation for life. Lagurara radioed the Malarge airport with their position and told them they would reach 2,515 metres (8,251ft) high Planchn Pass at 3:21p.m. Planchn Pass is the air traffic control hand-off point from one side of the Andes to the other, with controllers in Mendoza transferring flight tracking duties over to Pudahuel air traffic control in Santiago, Chile. Transfer Centre LIVE! "With that, our suffering ended," Canessa said. [3], As the aircraft descended, severe turbulence tossed the aircraft up and down. [4] He heard the news that the search was cancelled on their 11th day on the mountain. [47] The trip to the location takes three days. In his memoir, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (2006), Nando Parrado wrote about this decision: At high altitude, the body's caloric needs are astronomical we were starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon grew so voracious that we searched anyway again and again, we scoured the fuselage in search of crumbs and morsels. Fairly early on, you say that hearing your cousin Adolfo say out loud what many were thinking - that you were going to have to eat the bodies - gave you a kind of relief. Copyright 2019 NPR. Parrado lost more than seven stones (44kg) along the way, approaching half of his body weight. [47], In March 2006, the families of those aboard the flight had a black obelisk monument built at the crash site memorializing those who lived and died.[48]. Piers Paul Read's book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors described the moments after this discovery: The others who had clustered around Roy, upon hearing the news, began to sob and pray, all except [Nando] Parrado, who looked calmly up at the mountains which rose to the west. [26] Alfredo Delgado spoke for the survivors. Survivors were forced to eat the bodies of their dead friends, a. They became sicker from eating these. They dried the meat in the sun, which made it more palatable. We have a very small space. [19] A Catholic priest heard the survivors' confessions and told them that they were not damned for cannibalism (eating human flesh), given the in extremis nature of their survival situation. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. [7][10] Later analysis of their flight path found the pilot had not only turned too early, but turned on a heading of 014 degrees, when he should have turned to 030 degrees. I was very young. Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. Then, he followed the river to its junction with Ro Tinguiririca, where after crossing a bridge, he was able to reach the narrow route that linked the village of Puente Negro to the holiday resort of Termas del Flaco. Estamos dbiles. We're not going to do nothing wrong. The book was published two years after the survivors of the crash were rescued. [2] Club president Daniel Juan chartered a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D to fly the team over the Andes to Santiago. They had no technical gear, no map or compass, and no climbing experience. His mother died instantly, followed by his sister, cradled in his arms a week later. [21], After the sleeping bag was completed and Numa Turcatti died, Canessa was still hesitant. However, given the circumstances, including that the bodies were in Argentina, the Chilean rescuers left the bodies at the site until authorities could make the necessary decisions. We have many cases of people who - they decided to commit suicide. Photograph. At Planchn Pass, the aircraft still had to travel 6070km (3743mi) to reach Curic. It is south of the 4,650 metres (15,260ft) high Mount Seler, the mountain they later climbed and which Nando Parrado named after his father. He mistakenly believed the aircraft had reached Curic, where the flight would turn to descend into Pudahuel Airport. After numerous days spent searching for survivors, the rescue team was forced to end the search. As you can imagine, it has been the most awful, terrible days of my life. Vizintn and Parrado rejoined Canessa where they had slept the night before. This decision was not taken lightly, as most of the dead were classmates, close friends, or relatives. 176-177. STRAUCH: Yeah. Uruguayan Flight 571 was set to take a team of amateur rugby players and. Sun 14 Oct 2012 09.29 EDT The surviving members of a Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days. They hoped that the valley they were in would make a U-turn and allow them to start walking west to Chile. Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, also called Miracle of the Andes or Spanish El Milagro de los Andes, flight of an airplane charted by a Uruguayan amateur rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains in Argentina on October 13, 1972, the wreckage of which was not located for more than two months. We've received your submission. Survivors of a plane crash were forced to eat their dead friends in a harrowing story that sounds too unbelievable to be true. "The only reason why we're here alive today is because we had the goal of returning home (Our loved ones) gave us life. They've called off the search.' Four planes searched that afternoon until dark. Only much later did Canessa learn that the road he saw to the east would have gotten them to rescue sooner and easier.[29][30]. He wanted to write the story as it had happened without embellishment or fictionalizing it. [4], Thirty-three remained alive, although many were seriously or critically injured, with wounds including broken legs which had resulted from the aircraft's seats collapsing forward against the luggage partition and the pilot's cabin. "At about this time we were falling in the Andes. A paperback which referenced the film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes, was released in 1993. I have a wounded friend up there. Crashed at 3:34p.m. How so? Search efforts were canceled after eight days.[1]. Canessa, Parrado, and Vizintn were among the strongest boys and were allocated larger rations of food and the warmest clothes. During part of the climb, they sank up to their hips in the snow, which had been softened by the summer sun. We have been through so much. [17] Since the plane crash, Canessa had lost almost half of his body weight, about 44 kilograms (97lb). After more than two unthinkably. There were 10 extra seats and the team members invited a few friends and family members to accompany them. In 2007, Chilean arriero Sergio Cataln was interviewed on Chilean television during which he revealed that he had leg (hip) arthrosis. When he had boarded the ill-fated Uruguay Air Force plane for Chile, Harley weighed 84 kilograms. He believes that rugby saved their lives. There was no natural vegetation and there were no animals on either the glacier or nearby snow-covered mountain. Thinking of the suffering that must have caused our families at home made us even more determined to survive, said Sabella. "[12] The aircraft ground collision alarm sounded, alarming all of the passengers. They made the sacrifice for others.". In 1972, a plane carrying young men from a Uruguayan rugby team, crashed high in the Andes. He says reintegrating himself back into society was hard. The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, was only four years old. The ordeal "taught me that we set our own limits", he said. He had brought the pilot's flight chart and guided the helicopters up the mountain to the location of the remaining survivors. After numerous days spent searching for survivors, the rescue team was forced to end the search. Survivor Roberto Canessa described the decision to eat the pilots and their dead friends and family members: Our common goal was to survive but what we lacked was food. On the third day, they reach Las Lgrimas glacier, where the remains of the accident are found. The solar collector melted snow which dripped into empty wine bottles. After the initial shock of their plane crashing into the Andes mountains on that fateful Friday the 13th of October 1972, Harley and 31 other survivors found themselves in the pitch dark in minus . The next day, more survivors ate the meat offered to them, but a few refused or could not keep it down.[2]. [4], The survivors slept a final night in the fuselage with the search and rescue party. She had strong religious convictions, and only reluctantly agreed to partake of the flesh after she was told to view it as "like Holy Communion". NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After. I get used to. 'Alive': Uruguay plane crash survivors savour life 50 years on On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying an amateur Uruguayan rugby team, along with relatives and supporters, to an away match in Chile crashed in the Andes with 45 people on board. I went out in the snow and prayed to God for guidance. [3], Michel Roger concurs, stating that: "Read has risen above the sensational and managed a book of real and lasting value."[4]. Along with the 40 on board, there were five crew on the chartered flight on October 13, 1972 Friday the 13th. [17], Knowing that rescue efforts had been called off and faced with starvation and death, those still alive agreed that, should they die, the others might consume their bodies to live. Parrado took the lead and the other two often had to remind him to slow down, although the thin oxygen-poor air made it difficult for all of them. [7][3] The aircraft, FAU 571, was four years old and had 792 airframe hours. No tenemos comida. After just a few days, we were feeling the sensation of our own bodies consuming themselves just to remain alive. The news of their miraculous survival drew world-wide headlines that grew into a media circus. But after entering severe turbulence, the pilot made a mistake and began descending while they were still over the mountains. The book inspired the song "The Plot Sickens" on the album Every Trick in the Book by the American metalcore band Ice Nine Kills. The steep terrain only permitted the pilot to touch down with a single skid. The conditions were such that the pair could not reach him, but from afar they heard him say one word: "Tomorrow". And they continue living. He was accompanied by co-pilot Lieutenant-Colonel Dante Hctor Lagurara. [17], The Chilean Air Search and Rescue Service (SARS) was notified within the hour that the flight was missing. That must have been devastating. Hace 10 das que estamos caminando. The 28 people crammed themselves into the broken fuselage in a space about 2.5 by 3 metres (8ft 2in 9ft 10in). Colonel Julio Csar Ferradas was an experienced Air Force pilot who had a total of 5,117 flying hours. Alive is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The snow had not melted at this time in the southern hemisphere spring; they hoped to find the bodies in December, when the snow melted in the summer. Cundo nos van a buscar arriba? All hope seemed lost when they located the broken off tail of the plane, found batteries to get the radio to work, only to hear via a crackly message over the airwaves on their 10th day on the mountain that the search had been called off. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in his book, Out of the Silence: After the Crash. Others had open fractures to the legs and without treatment none of that group survived the next two and a half months in the frozen wilderness. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in sub-zero temperatures. Accuracy and availability may vary. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism. With the warmth of three bodies trapped by the insulating cloth, we might be able to weather the coldest nights. GARCIA-NAVARRO: And so two members of the team, dressed in only street clothes, miraculously were able to make it over the mountains and find help. The arrieros could not imagine that anyone could still be alive. [18] All had lived near the sea; some of the team members had never seen snow before, and none had experience at high altitude. Lagurara failed to notice that instrument readings indicated he was still 6070km (3743mi) from Curic. The pilot was able to bring the aircraft nose over the ridge, but at 3:34p.m., the lower part of the tail-cone may have clipped the ridge at 4,200 metres (13,800ft). It was later made into a Hollywood movie in 1993. But for 16 survivors, including 20 year-old Nando Parrado, what they experienced was worse than death. The reporters clamored to interview Parrado and Canessa about the crash and their survival ordeal. They called on the Andes Rescue Group of Chile (CSA). Pic: Paramount / Touchstone Pictures, The group survived for two and a half months in the Andes, The players were part of the Old Christians rugby team, A 2002 image of Roberto Canessa (R) with Sergio Catalan - who found the men. But they did. 'Why the hell is that good news?' The surviving members of a Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days and forcing them to eat human flesh to stay alive. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Once he held those items in his hands, he felt himself transported back to the mountains. But this story has endured, and at the time, in the early 70s, became controversial, because of what happened next. The remaining passengers resorted to cannibalism. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in sub-zero temperatures. He attempted to keep her alive without success, as during the eighth day she succumbed to her injuries. It was very difficult because the weather was very cold. The crew were dead and the radio didn't have any batteries. Rumors circulated in Montevideo immediately after the rescue that the survivors had killed some of the others for food. It was really amazing just to manage my mind, my thoughts. En el avin quedan 14 personas heridas. In those intervening months 13 more of the 29 who made that pact died on the mountain, five from their injuries and eight more in a catastrophic avalanche that buried the stricken fuselage that had become their refuge. "[29] They followed the ridge towards the valley and descended a considerable distance. [43], In 1973, mothers of 11 young people who died in the plane crash founded the Our Children Library in Uruguay to promote reading and teaching. They were abandoned, and in their minds condemned to die. The survivors tried to use lipstick recovered from the luggage to write an SOS on the roof of the aircraft, but they quit after realizing that they lacked enough lipstick to make letters visible from the air. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates. [15] They were also spared the daily manual labor around the crash site that was essential for the group's survival, so they could build their strength. Tenemos que salir rpido de aqu y no sabemos cmo. [34], Under normal circumstances, the search and rescue team would have brought back the remains of the dead for burial. Please, we cannot even walk. [17][2], Even with this strict rationing, their food stock dwindled quickly. They followed the river and reached the snowline. The plane slammed into a mountainside in rough weather when the pilot veered off-course. "[29] The next morning, the three men could see that the hike was going to take much longer than they had originally planned. While some reports state the pilot incorrectly estimated his position using dead reckoning, the pilot was relying on radio navigation. Parrado was lucky. Upon his return to the abandoned Hotel Termas with his son's remains, he was arrested for grave robbing. Many of the passengers had compound fractures or had been impaled by pieces . [17][26], During the trip he saw another arriero on the south side of Ro Azufre, and asked him to reach the men and to bring them to Los Maitenes. On average,. The rugby players joked about the turbulence at first, until some passengers saw that the aircraft was very close to the mountain. They flew in heavy cloud cover under instrument conditions to Los Maitenes de Curic where the army interviewed Parrado and Canessa. And after almost 2 1/2 months, the 16 survivors were rescued. On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 left the city of Mendoza, Argentina carrying the Old Christians Rugby Club of Montevideo, Uruguay to a scheduled game in Santiago, Chile. [3] Two more passengers fell out of the open rear of the fuselage. Members of a college rugby team and their relatives on Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 were travelling from Uruguay's capital Montevideo to Santiago, Chile, for a rugby game. The passengers removed the broken seats and other debris from the aircraft and fashioned a crude shelter. Canessa used broken glass from the aircraft windshield as a cutting tool. Soy uruguayo. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster (Tragedia de los Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes (Milagro de los Andes). Nando Parrado says they survivors 'donated their bodies' and made a pact. He has made them human. 2022-10-13 21:00:26 - Paris/France. [15], They continued east the next morning. [15], On 15 November, Arturo Nogueira died, and three days later, Rafael Echavarren died, both from gangrene due to their infected wounds. On the return trip, they were struck by a blizzard. Even just moments after the crash, they had to make difficult decisions. At this time of year, we could expect daytime temperatures well above freezing, but the nights were still cold enough to kill us, and we knew now that we couldn't expect to find shelter on the open slopes. The front portion of the fuselage flew straight through the air before sliding down the steep glacier at 350km/h (220mph) like a high-speed toboggan and descended about 725 metres (2,379ft). "Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, their friends, family and associates that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. We just heard on the radio. The flight time from the pass to Curic is normally 11 minutes, but only three minutes later the pilot told Santiago that they were passing Curic and turning north. The Fairchild turboprop was grounded in the middle of the Cordillera Occidental, a poorly mapped range almost 100 miles wide and home to Aconcagua, at 22,834 feet the . Walter Clemons declared that it "will become a classic in the literature of survival."[2]. Gustavo [Coco] Nicolich came out of the aircraft and, seeing their faces, knew what they had heard [Nicolich] climbed through the hole in the wall of suitcases and rugby shirts, crouched at the mouth of the dim tunnel, and looked at the mournful faces which were turned towards him. They had climbed a mountain on the border of Argentina and Chile, meaning the trekkers were still tens of kilometres from the green valleys of Chile. When someone cancelled at the last minute, Graziela Mariani bought the seat so she could attend her oldest daughter's wedding. The bodies of our friends and team-mates, preserved outside in the snow and ice, contained vital, life-giving protein that could help us survive. "It's something that very few people experience." GARCIA-NAVARRO: At one point, you hear on the little radio that you have that the search for you all has been called off. [17], It was still bitterly cold, but the sleeping bag allowed them to live through the nights. But physically, it was very difficult to get it in the first day. While others encouraged Parrado, none would volunteer to go with him. Vizintn and Parrado reached the base of a near-vertical wall more than one hundred meters (300 feet) tall encased in snow and ice. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. On Friday, October 13, in 1972, charter flight 571 took off from Montevideo, Uruguay's capital city, carrying a boisterous team of wealthy college athletes to a rugby match in Chile. It was published by Crown . [19], The survivors had very little food: eight chocolate bars, a tin of mussels, three small jars of jam, a tin of almonds, a few dates, candies, dried plums, and several bottles of wine. Unable to obtain official permission to retrieve his son's body, Ricardo Echavarren mounted an expedition on his own with hired guides. The rescuers believed that no one could have survived the crash. Fito Strauch devised a way to obtain water in freezing conditions by using sheet metal from under the seats and placing snow on it. On the second night of the expedition, which was their first night sleeping outside, they nearly froze to death. When the fuselage collided with a snow bank, the seats were torn from their base and thrown against the forward bulkhead and each other. Fell from aircraft, missing: The survivors' courage under extremely adverse conditions has been described as "a beacon of hope to [their] generation, showing what can be accomplished with persistence and determination in the presence of unsurpassable odds, and set our minds to attain a common aim". First, they were able to reach the narrow valley that Parrado had seen on the top of the mountain, where they found the source of Ro San Jos, leading to Ro Portillo which meets Ro Azufre at Maitenes. They couldn't help everyone. [26], It was now apparent that the only way out was to climb over the mountains to the west. The Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The boys, from Uruguay's coast had never seen snow before. Those left knew that they would die if they did not find help. All 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash have reunited for the 50th anniversary, according to a report. It doesn't taste anything. Strauch was one of 45 people on a charter flight ferrying an amateur rugby team from Uruguay to Chile on . They were running out of food, so Vizintn agreed to return to the crash site leaving his remaining portions to the other two. He set the example by swallowing the first matchstick-sized strip of frozen flesh. Because of the co-pilot's dying statement that the aircraft had passed Curic, the group believed the Chilean countryside was just a few kilometres away to the west. They were initially so revolted by the experience that they could eat only skin, muscle and fat. "[17] Parrado saw two smaller peaks on the western horizon that were not covered in snow. On 26 December, two pictures taken by members of Cuerpo de Socorro Andino (Andean Relief Corps) of a half-eaten human leg were printed on the front page of two Chilean newspapers, El Mercurio and La Tercera de la Hora,[2] who reported that all survivors resorted to cannibalism. 2022. On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in the Andes along the Argentine-Chilean border. STRAUCH: Yeah. Parrado was determined to hike out or die trying. Parrado now sees those who died and gave up their bodies for food as the very first "consent donors", like modern organ donors enabling others to live. [1], The book was a critical success. On the second day, Canessa thought he saw a road to the east, and tried to persuade Parrado to head in that direction. The harsh conditions gave searchers little hope that they would find anyone alive. [40] The father of one victim had received word from a survivor that his son wished to be buried at home. He had prearranged with the priest who had buried his son to mark the bag containing his son's remains. Four-wheel drive vehicles transport travelers from the village of El Sosneado to Puesto Araya, near the abandoned Hotel Termas del Sosneado. At Canessa's urging, they waited nearly seven days to allow for higher temperatures. Parrado disagreed and they argued without reaching a decision. They also found the aircraft's two-way radio. Our minds are amazing. 'Alive' is thunderous entertainment: I know the events by rote, nonetheless I found it electric. [17] The survivors heard on the transistor radio that the Uruguayan Air Force had resumed searching for them. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. He requested permission from air traffic control to descend. The team's. They felt that the faith and friendship which inspired them in the cordillera do not emerge from these pages. For a long time, we agonized. They stop overnight on the mountain at El Barroso camp. 13 bodies were untouched, while another 15 were mostly skeletal. Instead of climbing the ridge to the west which was somewhat lower than the peak, they climbed straight up the steep mountain. He compared their actions to that of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, during which he gave his disciples the Eucharist. Canessa said it was the worst night of his life. To get there, the plane would have to fly over the snow-capped peaks of the Andes Mountains. And at last, I was convinced that it was the only way to live. Or was this the only sane thing to do? The plane was so far off course that the searchers were looking in the wrong place. Parrado ate a single chocolate-covered peanut over three days. Parrado replied:[17][26], Vengo de un avin que cay en las montaas. Unknown to any of the team members, the aircraft's electrical system used 115 volts AC, while the battery they had located produced 24 volts DC,[4] making the plan futile from the beginning. [3][2], The aircraft continued forward and upward another 200 meters (660ft) for a few more seconds when the left wing struck an outcropping at 4,400 meters (14,400ft), tearing off the wing. And the snow was all over the kerosene of the engines of the plane. Without His consent, I felt I would be violating the memory of my friends; that I would be stealing their souls. He used a stick from his pack to carve steps in the wall. The next collision severed the right wing. During the first night, five more people died: co-pilot Lagurara, Francisco Abal, Graziela Mariani, Felipe Maquirriain, and Julio Martinez-Lamas. They now used their training to help the injured passengers. The Uruguayan air force plane that carried the team crashed in a mountain pass in October 1972 en route from Montevideo to Santiago. Parrado was sure this was their way out of the mountains. Regardless, at 3:21p.m., shortly after transiting the pass, Lagurara contacted Santiago and notified air traffic controllers that he expected to reach Curic a minute later. Truly, we were pushing the limits of our fear. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive. Numa Turcatti, whose extreme revulsion for eating the meat dramatically accelerated his physical decline, died on day 60 (11 December) weighing only 25 kg (55 pounds). Canessa, who had become a doctor, and other survivors raised funds to pay for a hip replacement operation. We needed a way to survive the long nights without freezing, and the quilted batts of insulation we'd taken from the tail section gave us our solution as we brainstormed about the trip, we realized we could sew the patches together to create a large warm quilt. This year, the 50th anniversary of their ordeal was celebrated with a stamp by the Uruguayan post office, the newspaper reported. In 1972, a charter jet carrying a Uruguayan rugby team across the Andes mountains crashed, eventually killing 29 of the 45 people on board. And at the end - absolutely disconnected with the origin of that food.
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