The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Channel: Syncopea
Date: 2024-02-14

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
in 1971. Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year-old girl, found herself at the center of a harrowing ordeal that would forever change her life.



At 17, Juliane Koepcke was ejected from an airplane struck by lightning, falling two miles to the ground strapped to her seat. 

In 1971, during a thunderstorm, LANSA Flight 508 disintegrated mid-flight. Koepcke survived the fall, speculated to be mitigated by jungle foliage and winds. 

She then endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle with a broken collarbone, a wound on her arm, and infestations of maggots and bug bites. 

She found refuge near a river and a boat hut, where she encountered others. Koepcke sustained herself with candy from the wreckage, but tragically, her mother did not survive. 

Of the 14 initial survivors, none endured while awaiting emergency services. Rescued from the jungle, Koepcke later studied mammology and, at 69, remains alive today.
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