On the other hand, within an hour of the plane’s disappearance, the Chilean Air Search and Rescue Service received a notification. Four aircraft were deployed to search for the survivors. They tried to find the crash site from dusk till night, but unfortunately, they didn’t find anything. The rescue service officers concluded after hearing the radio transmissions that the aircraft must have crashed in a remote and inaccessible area.
The problem was that the aircraft was white in colour and it had crashed in a place where there was white snow and ice all around. It was very difficult to locate it in the snowy mountains.
On the night of 13th October, the remaining passengers were very hopeful. They hoped that if they would somehow spent a night there and find a way to escape the cold then someone would find them the next day. Five injured passengers couldn’t survive that snowy night. The number of survivors fell from 33 to 28.
These survivors used the remaining body of the plane as a shelter. They used luggage, seats, and snow to close the rear of the plane so that they could stay warm inside.
