Juliane Koepcke was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight plane crash in 1971. The commercial airliner was en route from Lima, Peru to the city of Pucallpa and ended up being struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm.
The plane disintegrated mid-air due to structural failure and crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Koepcke, who was seventeen at the time, made impact while still strapped into her seat and survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, a gash on her arm, and a swollen eye.
Koepcke was forced to fend for herself for 11 days and relied on survival advice her father had previously relayed to her. Koepcke eventually located local lumbermen who tended to her injuries, took her on a seven-hour canoe ride to a lumber station, and had her airlifted to a hospital.
Juliane Koepcke was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight plane crash in 1971. The commercial airliner was en route from Lima, Peru to the city of Pucallpa and ended up being struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm.
The plane disintegrated mid-air due to structural failure and crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Koepcke, who was seventeen at the time, made impact while still strapped into her seat and survived the fall with only a broken
collarbone, a gash on her arm, and a swollen eye.
Koepcke was forced to fend for herself for 11 days and relied on survival advice her father had previously relayed to her. Koepcke eventually located local lumbermen who tended to her injuries, took her on a seven-hour canoe ride to a lumber station, and had her airlifted to a hospital.
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