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Oct 1, 2022 · Strapped aboard plane wreckage hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had a fleeting thought as she glimpsed the ground 3,000 metres below her.
- Rebecca Armitage
Mar 24, 2012 · Juliane Koepcke was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother when her plane was hit by lightning. She survived a two-mile fall and found herself alone in the jungle, just 17.
Jan 16, 2024 · The following day, January 3, 1972, Juliane was finally discovered by three fishermen who found her in the shack and helped her to safety. After her rescue, Juliane learned that she was the sole remaining survivor of the LANSA crash. A total of 91 people had been killed, including her mother Maria.
Mar 10, 2024 · Juliane Koepcke was seated in 19F beside her mother in the 86-passenger plane when suddenly, they found themselves in the midst of a massive thunderstorm. The plane flew into a swirl of pitch-black clouds with flashes of lightning glistening through the windows.
- Kara Goldfarb
Jun 24, 2013 · When she was 17, Juliane Koepcke dropped 10,000 feet into the Amazon rain forest. She describes how she survived—alone.
- Katherine Macdonald
Apr 8, 2022 · Rescue. A trio of men later discovered her at the hut. They transported her via canoe to the nearest airfield and she was once more strapped into a plane. It was 11 days since she first entered the jungle and out of 92 people on board Flight 508, she was the sole survivor.
Mar 12, 2024 · For 11 days, she battled against hunger, thirst and severe insect bites, surviving only on a packet of sweets she'd found in the plane's wreckage. Although rescue planes searched for survivors from the crash, the jungle's dense vegetation meant the rescuers couldn't spot Koepcke.
