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Uruguayan plane-crash survivors depicted in 'Alive' lend support to 33 trapped Chilean miners

September 3, 2010 |The Associated Press
- Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, center, talks to journalists at La Moneda presidential palace accompanied by members of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team, from left, Gustavo Zerbino, Ramon Sabella, Jose Luis Inciarte and Pedro Algorta in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The four men survived a plane crash in the Chilean Andes in 1972 and have been called to Chile to share their experience with relatives of the trapped miners at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, northern Chile. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez) -

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, center, talks to journalists at La Moneda presidential palace accompanied by members of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team, from left, Gustavo Zerbino, Ramon Sabella, Jose Luis Inciarte and Pedro Algorta in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The four men survived a plane crash in the Chilean Andes in 1972 and have been called to Chile to share their experience with relatives of the trapped miners at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, northern Chile. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

SANTIAGO, Chile - Former Uruguayan rugby players who survived more than two months of isolation in the Andes after their plane crashed about 40 years ago were in Chile on Friday to support a group of miners trapped deep underground.

Ramon Sabella said he and fellow plane-crash survivors Pedro Alcorta, Jose Inciarte, and Gustavo Servino will visit the San Jose mine in the northern town of Copiapo on Saturday to deliver a message of hope and support from Uruguayan children.

The miners have been trapped nearly a half-mile underground since Aug. 5. Authorities say it may take up to four months to rescue them.

The ex-players met with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Friday in the capital, Santiago.

In 1972, the four were among 16 Uruguayans who survived a plane crash in the snow-covered Andes and then waited 72 days to be rescued. Some were forced to eat the flesh of friends killed in the crash to stay alive themselves.

Sabella was shown on television Friday holding up the children's message.

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