Yes it could happen
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972, in an incident known as the Andes flight disaster and, in the Hispanic world and South America, as the Miracle of the Andes (El Milagro de los Andes).
More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several
others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a
few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche
that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors
were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash.
The
survivors had a small amount of food: a few chocolate bars, assorted
snacks and several bottles of wine. During the days following the crash
they divided up this food in very small amounts so therefore as not to
exhaust their meager supply. Fito Strauch devised a way to melt snow
into water by using metal from the seats and placing snow on it. The
snow then melted in the sun and dripped into empty wine bottles. Even
with this strict rationing, their food stock dwindled quickly. There was
no natural vegetation or animals on the snow-covered mountain. The
group survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the
bodies of their dead comrades. This decision was not taken lightly, as
most were classmates or close friends.
In his 2006 book, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado comments on this decision:
“At
high altitude, the body's caloric needs are astronomical ... we were
starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon
grew so voracious that we searched anyway ...again and again we scoured
the fuselage in search of crumbs and morsels. We tried to eat strips of
leather torn from pieces of luggage, though we knew that the chemicals
they'd been treated with would do us more harm than good. We ripped open
seat cushions hoping to find straw, but found only inedible upholstery
foam ... Again and again I came to the same conclusion: unless we wanted
to eat the clothes we were wearing, there was nothing here but
aluminum, plastic, ice, and rock.
IN BIBLE
MOTHERS WHO ATE THEIR SONS
‘When
King Benhadad of Syria besieged Samaria severe famine overtook those
within the city, and as Israel’s king, Jehoram, went around the defenses
encouraging his garrison, a woman seeing him appealed to him for
justice against her neighbor. The two women, driven to despair by the
terrible scarcity of food, entered into a pact to eat their sons. One
day the two women ate one of the boys, but the next day the mother whose
son was still alive hid him and refused to deliver him up for human
consumption. When the king heard this appalling story from the woman
whose son had been eaten, he dressed himself in sackcloth, a sign of his
desire to appease the wrath of Jehovah who permitted the dire famine
because of the nation’s departure from Him. Jehoram, holding Elisha
responsible for the famine, threatened to kill him, but heard from the
prophet the prediction of the days of plenty. The hideous recourse of
eating human flesh in time of siege is referred to elsewhere’
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters
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