Juliane Koepcke was the daughter of two famous Zoologists who ran a research station in the
Amazonian Jungles of Peru.
She was on a flight with her mother going from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru in the Amazon jungle.
The flight would take less than an hour. They were flying to spend Christmas with Juliane’s father.
The flight went fine until halfway through it. A lightning bolt hit a fuel tank and ripped the right wing off.
Presents were flying around the cabin and then Juliane was sucked out of the airplane as it spiraled to the ground.
She was still attached to a row of chairs. She fell two miles before she landed in the jungle among thick foliage. She knew about the Amazon and how to survive, because her father had taught her. She had a broken collarbone and one eye was swollen shut.
She had major lacerations on her arms and legs. She found a creek and began walking through it to find a stream that would lead her to a river and civilization. She survived crocodiles, piranhas, and devils rays.
She walked for 10 days before she found a boat and a hut. She was starving and had maggots infesting her wounds. She stayed in the hut for the night and the next day Peruvian lumberjacks found her and brought her to a nearby town.
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