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Andes Plane Crash: Terror At 30,000 Feet review - The crash survivors' story is no less harrowing 50 years on, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Spanish director J.A. Bayona, who spent a decade making his movie, called it by a poetic and mysterious phrase: Society Of The Snow is about the Andes Plane Crash disaster of 1972.

Wreckage of the aircraft in the Andes in 1972 after the pilot of their chartered air force plane made a catastrophic miscalculation, began his descent far too early, and ploughed into a mountainside Many of the passengers were members of a top Uruguayan rugby squad, on their way to a match in Chile when the pilot of their chartered air force plane made a catastrophic miscalculation, began his descent far too early, and ploughed into a mountainside: 12 people of the 45 on board were killed, with many more seriously injured. What none of these titles mention is the central fact that fascinates and repels us: fighting starvation for weeks amid the wreckage, the survivors took the impossible decision to eat the flesh of their dead companions.

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