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Francisco Abal

Uruguayan rugby player

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Abal and the second or maternal family name is Guerault.

Francisco Domingo Abal Guerault (24 June – 13 October ) was a Uruguayan rugby player. He was part of the Old Christians Club and was considered one of the best rugby players in his country.

In he was part of the Uruguayan rugby team.

Susana parrado biography of christopher columbus One of the survivors, Nando Parrado portrayed by Hawke in the film , served as the technical advisor for the film. The raucous rugby players and a few of their relatives and friends are eagerly looking forward to an upcoming match in Chile. Upon emerging from clouds, the plane encounters turbulence and collides with a mountain. The wings and tail are separated from the fuselage, which slides down a mountain slope before coming to a stop. Six passengers and one flight attendant are ejected from the plane and die.

Part of his life and the tragedy experienced during the Uruguayan Air Force Flight is featured in the film Society of the Snow.[2] Abal is played by Argentine actor Jerónimo Bosia.[2]

Biography

In Miracle in the Andes, the book by his childhood friend Fernando Nando Parrado, Abal is described as a good-looking young man from a family with good social and economic status.[3] He had earned, by the time he was 15, like Parrado, a place in the Stella Maris First XV, the starting line-up of the Old Christians rugby team.

He graduated from Stella Maris School.

The Abal family owned a cigarette factory where Francisco had started working.[4][5] He was also a shareholder of Abal Hnos.[6] Francisco is known for being one of the 45 passengers of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight that crashed in October in the Argentine sector of the Andes Mountains.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight

Main article: Uruguayan Air Force Flight

On the plane he was traveling next to Nando, in the right row of seats but in the aisle seat.[7] He later asked his friend to change seats. Also on the plane was his cousin, Javier Methol, 36, with his wife Liliana, Javier was an executive and shareholder in the Abal cigarette factory and a survivor of the tragedy.[8][9]

After the crash, Panchito was badly injured and his legs were damaged, but in spite of the injury he was able to speak; it is known that he told part of the events of the accident.[10] When the provisional wall was built to cover the hole in the plane, he was laid there along with the other seriously injured: the siblings Susana and Nando Parrado.

During that night, with a trickle of voice, he asked for help that nobody could give him and murmured that he was freezing. Later at dawn, when medicine students Roberto Canessa and Gustavo Zerbino examined the wounded the next morning, they realized that he had died as a result of his wounds and the extreme cold.[11][12] The corpse was covering Susana Parrado and presented a purple hue in the extremities.

Susana parrado biography of christopher Movie name: Society of the Snow La sociedad de la nieve. It is based on a true story. Among those on the flight were members of the Old Christians Club rugby team, along with family members and friends. While crossing the towering Andes, the pilots misread their location and started descending into what they thought was Santiago airport. On descent, the aircraft clipped a mountain ridge shearing off the wings and tail section.

He was only 21 years old.[13] Susana died a few days later.[14] Currently, his remains rest together with the other victims five meters from the monument in their honor at the site of the accident.

References

Bibliography

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    To Play the Game: A History of Flight . Heddon. ISBN&#;.

  • Piers Paul Read, ¡Viven!: la tragedia de los Andes, editor 'Noguer', , ISBN y
  • Carlitos Páez, Miguel Ángel Campodónico, Después del día 10&#;: La Cordillera de los Andes me enseñó a vivir, editor 'Linardi y Risso', , ISBN y
  • Pablo Vierci, La Sociedad de la Nieve: Por primera vez Los 16 sobrevivientes cuentan la historia completa, Editorial Sudamericana, , ISBN X y
  • Nando Parrado, Milagro en los Andes, editor 'Grupo Planeta Spain', , ISBN X y (texto parcial en línea).
  • Pedro Algorta, Las montañas siguen allí: La tragedia de los Andes contada como nunca por un sobreviviente, editor 'Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina', , ISBN y (texto parcial en línea).
  • Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci, Tenía que sobrevivir&#;: Cómo un accidente aéreo en los Andes inspiró mi vocación para salvar vidas, editor 'Atria Books', , ISBN y (texto parcial en línea).