Juliane Koepcke
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Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm
Description
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived: Juliane Koepcke - here is her fascinating story of survival against all the odds.
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Description
It was supposed to be the beginning of the Christmas holidays, and 91 people died in death: Flight 508, which crashed over the Peruvian rainforest on December 24, 1971. Only the then 17-year-old Juliane, who was sitting next to her mother in the machine, survived.
Behind her lay a childhood in the jungle, surrounded by wild animals and tropical plants. During this time Juliane had learned the laws of the rainforest. She knew the sounds, knew which...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day
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