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Listen to his inspirational account of this remarkable experience. The book is mostly about the plane crash, but there is a large part about the young patients who had come to roberto canessa, either in utero or shortly after birth, with heart problems he was able to fix. Roberto canessa was a 19yearold medical student travelling with his teammates from the christian brothers college rugby squad when their plane crashed over the andes in october, 1972. Roberto canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash.