Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke

Birth : 1954-10-10, Lima, Perú

History

Juliane Margaret Koepcke is a German-Peruvian biologist, born in Peru to German expatriates, who was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest. When the airliner broke up in mid-air, she survived after plummeting about 3 km (~10,000 feet) while still strapped to her seat, before crashing through the rain forest canopy and coming to rest on the forest floor.

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Juliane Koepcke

Movies

Wings of Hope
Herself
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.
Miracles Still Happen
Story
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.