Plane crash survivors share chilling first-hand accounts of how they turned into CANNIBALS in new Netflix film ‘Society of the Snow’, calling dead friends ‘organ donors’ who saved them with their flesh

The air disaster in the Andes on October 13, 1972 changed the lives of 45 people.

Now, the grim Netflix film Society of the Snow will give its streaming platform viewers a glimpse into the harsh reality of the surviving passengers.

It all started when a pilot, Lt. Col. Dante Héctor Lagurara, crashed in the Andes Mountains of South America after realizing the plane was 45 miles away from where they were supposed to land.

Twelve passengers died immediately, 17 others died from injuries and asphyxiation from an avalanche, and 16 passengers survived through hard work and by eating the flesh and organs from the bodies of their dead friends.

Society of the Snow, which chronicles the 72 days the passengers fought for survival in the wilderness, will hit cinemas in Uruguay and Spanish cinemas tomorrow, December 15, and will be available on Netflix from January 4.

16 passengers survived the crash after being stuck in the cold weather for 72 days and search efforts were halted

The upcoming film is based on the book of the same name written by Pablo Vierci, which was published in 2009.

Vierci was not on the plane, but went to school with the passengers on the ill-fated plane.

One of the actual survivors who suggested the idea of ​​cannibalism, Roberto Canessa, also wrote a book about his experiences in 2016.

His autobiography was called I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives.

Despite the idea being Canessa's, the survivor admitted that the thought of eating the remains of their friends was “too horrible to think about.”

'For a long time we tormented. I went out into the snow and prayed to God for guidance,” he wrote.

Canessa added, “Without His permission, I felt that I would be violating the memory of my friends; that I would steal their souls.'

'We wondered if we were going crazy to even think about something like that. Had we turned into brutal savages?,” he continued.

'Was this the only sensible thing to do? Truly, we pushed the boundaries of our fear.”

Canessa also took part in a long walk while stranded with fellow survivor Fernando Parrado, saying he would rather walk to face his death than wait for it to come to him.

The survivors had little food and became sick, and then they decided to eat the skin and organs of their dead friends, known as cannibalism.

Cannibalism was difficult for the survivors to adjust to at first, but they eventually adapted to it despite how horrible it was to think about.

Ramon Sabella discussed his decision to turn to cannibalism after he and the fifteen other survivors gathered for the 50th anniversary of the plane crash.

“Of course the idea of ​​eating human flesh was terrible,” Sabella said The Sunday times.

The seemingly terrible idea was difficult for the passengers, but Sabella said they all got used to it.

“In a way, our friends were some of the world's first organ donors – they helped feed us and kept us alive,” he added.

Survivor and author of After the Tenth Day Carlos Paez Rodriguez recalled what it was like in the freezing cold, and how he felt “it was his duty” to tell his story.

“I am condemned to tell this story forever, just as the Beatles must always sing Yesterday,” he declared.

None of the victims' names will be changed for the film based on a book written by Pablo Vierci, who went to school with some of the victims

Director of Society of Snow JA Bayona told Today via The American sun“We were shooting at 40,000 feet, the exact same spot where the plane crashed, the same time of year.”

The film will likely be emotional and possibly painful for the survivors to watch, depending on what Society of Snow will be about.

Several survivors will be played by Uruguayan actors and no changes will be made to the names of the survivors.