Now during the days following the crash, they divided this into very small amounts, but even with a strict rationing, their food ran out after only one week. They even tried to eat parts of the airplane, such as the cotton inside the seats and leather. Now the survivors did have a radio and they knew that rescue efforts had been called off. And faced with starvation and death, those still alive made an agreement that should they die, the others might consume their bodies to live. With no choice, the survivors ate the bodies of their dead friends. They first ate the pilot because the corpses had been preserved by being in the snow so long and they used a piece of broken glass from the windshield to cut the flesh and then they sucked on the icy frozen flesh for nutrient. But like I mentioned, all of the passengers were Roman Catholic and they feared eternal damnation.