Discover the incredible story of juliane koepcke, the teenager who defied the odds, surviving 11 days in the jungle after a 1971 lansa flight 508 plane crash. When she was 17, juliane koepcke dropped 10,000 feet into the amazon rainforest She describes how she survived completely alone If you were alive in the 1970s, you probably heard the story of. They intended to reunite with juliane's father, who was studying in the south american jungle As the flight neared the end, the plane struck a thunderstorm.
On christmas eve in 1971, a young woman's life changed forever when she found herself plummeting through the sky in the midst of a thunderstorm That woman was juliane koepcke, the sole survivor of a tragic plane crash in the peruvian rainforest. In interviews, juliane described herself as a ‘jungle child’ and explained how her parents taught her to survive in the wilderness When juliane was a teenager, her parents moved their operation from the country capital of lima to panguana, almost 400 miles away in the lush amazon rainforest. The rescuers have indeed found that juliane was not the only survivor of the plane crash Juliane has returned to peru occasionally, not for fame or nostalgia, but to connect with her roots—and the place that nearly killed her
