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Chilean mountaineers say they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of a professional soccer team.
The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 3200 metres about 360 kilometres south of Santiago, the capital.
Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile's Channel 7 they're keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.
The disappearance of the Douglas DC-3 carrying members of the top-division Chilean team Green Cross on April 3, 1961 was one of the great unsolved mysteries in the South American country and at the time stunned the sporting world.
The club had played an away match in Osorno in the Copa de Chile and was returning to Santiago.
The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 3200 metres about 360 kilometres south of Santiago, the capital.
Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile's Channel 7 they're keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.
The disappearance of the Douglas DC-3 carrying members of the top-division Chilean team Green Cross on April 3, 1961 was one of the great unsolved mysteries in the South American country and at the time stunned the sporting world.
The club had played an away match in Osorno in the Copa de Chile and was returning to Santiago.
