The Juliana Koepcke story - Twitter

• beliefmediaJuliane Koepcke, aged 17, was elected from of a Lockheed Electra OB-R-91 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. The aircraft was flying through a severe storm and broke up in-flight at 10'000 feet. She fell to the ground strapped to her seat and survived with only a broken collarbone, a gash to her right arm, and her right eye was swollen shut.
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  She endured a 10-day walk through the Amazon Jungle before being rescued by a logging team. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane, now 62, was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.
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  "I had nightmares for a long time, for years, and if course the grief about my mother's death and that of the other people came back again and again. The thought 'Why was I the only surviving?' haunts me. It always will" - Juliane Koepcke (2010).
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