The Incredible Story Of Juliane Koepcke, The Teenager Who Fell 10,000 Feet Out Of A Plane And Somehow Survived
Juliane Koepcke wandered the Peruvian jungle for 11 days before she stumbled upon loggers who helped her. The Incredible Story Of Juliane Koepcke, The Teenager Who Fell 10,000 Feet Out Of A Plane And Somehow Survived After becoming the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 crash over the Peruvian rainforest in 1971, Juliane Koepcke spent 11 days in the jungle clawing her way back to civilization. Juliane Koepcke had no idea what was in store for her when she boarded LANSA Flight 508 on Christmas Eve in 1971. The 17-year-old was traveling with her mother from Lima, Peru to the eastern city of Pucallpa to visit her father, who was working in the Amazonian Rainforest. She had received her high school diploma the day before the flight and had planned to study zoology like her parents. But then, the hour-long flight turned into a nightmare when a massive thunderstorm sent the small plane hurtling into the trees. “Now it’s all over,” Koepcke recalls hearing her mother say. The next thing...