Lanza Flight 508 - Crashed - 1 Survivor - 24 Dec 1971 - Juliane Koepcke

17 year-old Juliane Koepcke born in 1954
was sucked out of an airplane in 1971
after it was struck by a bolt of lightning.

She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat
and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.

After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter,
and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full.

Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds,
an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm.

Out of 93 passengers and crew,
Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash
that took place December 24th, 1971.

 

Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke


Juliane Koepcke (born 10 October 1954),
also known by her married name Juliane Diller,
is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats.
The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke,
she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash;
after falling 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffering numerous injuries,
she survived 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest until local fishermen rescued her.