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Juliane fell 3,000 meters—and woke up alive. 🌧️
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Juliane fell 3,000 meters—and woke up alive. 🌧️

Juliane fell 3,000 meters—and woke up alive. 🌧️ . . . On December 24, 1971, lightning struck LANSA Flight 508 over Peru and tore the aircraft apart. Seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke plunged roughly 3,000 meters while still strapped to her seat, then followed a stream through the Amazon for 11 days. She was the flight's sole survivor.

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BBC News, 2012, 'Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash'

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