Juliane Koepcke is a living miracle
Read this and wonder how she survived the plane crash…
It was Christmas Eve, 1971, when Koepcke, then aged 17, and her mother boarded a Lockheed Electra turboprop for a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest. Her parents, both famous zoologists, ran a research station in the jungle studying wildlife.
The flight was supposed to last for less than an hour and for the first 25 minutes everything was fine, Koepcke recalled.
“Then we flew into heavy clouds and the plane started shaking. My mother was very nervous. Then to the right we saw a bright flash and the plane went into a nose dive. My mother said, ‘This is it!’”
“We were headed straight down. Christmas presents were flying around the cabin and I could hear people screaming.”
As the plane broke into pieces in midair, Koepcke was thrust out into the open air:
“Suddenly there was this amazing silence. The plane was gone. I must have been unconscious and then came to in midair. I was flying, spinning through the air and I could see the forest spinning beneath me.”
Then Koepcke lost consciousness again. She fell more than three kilometers (two miles) into the jungle canopy but miraculously survived with only minor injuries. Ninety-one other people aboard Flight 508 died.
After 10 days, starved and exhausted, Koepke finally came upon a small boat and a hut on the river. She stayed there, hoping to be rescued. The next day a group of Peruvian lumberjacks found her and brought her to the next town.
Read the article of how she made it thru the jungle for 10 days to a river and rescue.
July 3, 2009
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