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On December 24, 1971, Juliane Koepcke and her mother boarded a flight in Lima bound for Pucallpa, the city airport closest to Panguana, to visit her father for Christmas. By her own accounts, the first half of the LANSA Flight 508 was smooth and uneventful. And then they flew into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning hit the wing of the Lockheed L-188A Electra aircraft, causing it to break apart. Juliane Koepcke, Women Heroes, German Study, People In History, Sole Survivor, Pitch Dark, The Amazon Rainforest, Female Hero, History Quotes

On December 24, 1971, Juliane Koepcke and her mother boarded a flight in Lima bound for Pucallpa, the city airport closest to Panguana, to visit her father for Christmas. By her own accounts, the first half of the LANSA Flight 508 was smooth and uneventful. And then they flew into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning hit the wing of the Lockheed L-188A Electra aircraft, causing it to break apart.

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Juliane Koepcke: The girl who fell 3km from a plane explosion and survived Juliane Koepcke, Old Girl Names, Werner Herzog, A Plane, The Girl Who, Christmas Eve, The Beginning, Documentaries, Passenger

In the documentary 'Wings of Hope' by Werner Herzog, Juliane Koepcke returns to the Amazonian jungle where she survived a terrible plane crash. The chances of surviving a mid-air plane explosion are so small that it is almost beyond comprehension. But for a 17-year-old girl named Juliane Koepcke, a 3km plunge to the ground was just the beginning of an incredible survival story. It was Christmas Eve, 1971, and Juliane and her mother were passengers onboard a flight from the Peruvian capital…

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