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. So they rationalized that the act was to be viewed as a sacrament, eating the flesh to survive. 17 days after the crash, their misfortune continued when an avalanche killed eight people and trapped the survivors deep inside the fuselage with no food. The avalanche survivors began to cannibalize the newly fresh corpses of their friends.