The plane fuselage came to rest on a glacier at at an elevation of in the Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province. The unnamed glacier (later named Glaciar de las Lágrimas or Glacier of Tears) is between Cerro Sosneado and high at Volcán Tinguiririca, straddling the remote mountainous border between Chile and Argentina. It is south of high Cerro Seler, the mountain they later climbed and which Nando Parrado named after his father. The aircraft was east of its planned route.