After looking for her mother and other passengers, she was able to locate a small stream.She waded through knee-high water downstream from her landing site, relying on the survival principle her father had taught her, that tracking downstream should eventually lead to civilization.The stream provided clean water and a natural path through the dense rainforest vegetation.During the trip, Juliane Koepcke could not sleep at night because of insect bites, which became infected.After nine days, several spent floating downstream, she Relying again on her father’s advice, Koepcke poured gasoline on her wounds, which succeeded in removing thirty-five maggots from one arm, then waited until rescuers arrived.She later recounted her necessary efforts that day: “The next morning they took her via a seven-hour canoe ride down the river to a lumber station in the Tournavista District.With the help of a local pilot, she was airlifted to a hospital – and her waiting father – in Pucallpa.Koepcke’s unlikely survival has been the subject of much speculation. Koepcke managed to avoid being bitten or attacked by crocodiles, snakes, piranha, and devil rays. Als 17-jarig meisje overleefde zij in 1971 als enige het neerstorten van LANSA-vlucht 508. On December 24, 1971, Koepcke, at the time a seventeen-year-old high school student studying in Lima, Peru, boarded LANSA Flight 508. All rights reserved. On December 24, 1971, Koepcke, at the time a seventeen-year-old high school student studying in Lima, Peru, boarded LANSA Flight 508. Then, suddenly, the plane entered heavy storm clouds and began to experience strong turbulence, causing luggage and other items, including Christmas presents and cakes, to be thrown around the cabin. Also missing were her glasses, which she wore for acute short-sightedness. Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (verheiratete Juliane Diller; * 10. After ten days, Koepcke, starved, fatigued, and in need of medical attention, came across a small boat and a hut on the river. Juliane Koepcke published her thesis, Ecological study of a bat colony in the tropical rainforest of Peru, in 1987.Now known as Juliane Diller, she serves as librarian at the Bavarian State Zoological Collection in Munich.Koepcke’s experience, having been widely reported, is the subject of one feature-length fictional film and one documentary.The first was the low-budget, heavily fictionalized I miracoli accadono ancora (Twenty-five years later, director Werner Herzog revisited the story in his film Wings of Hope (1998); Herzog, while location scouting for Aguirre, the Wrath of God, would have been on the flight but for a last-minute change of itinerary.Subscribe to our mailing list and get history updates to your inbox! Juliane Koepcke (born October 10, 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German Peruvian mammalogist.

She had less luck, however, with flies and other insects, which laid maggots in her wounds and bit her ferociously, causing her great discomfort and depriving her of sleep. A moment later, while flying approximately 21,000 feet above mean sea level over a mountainous region of the Amazonian jungle, the plane was struck directly by lightning, igniting the fuel tank in the right wing and causing the wing to separate. Oktober 1954 in Lima, Peru) ist eine deutsche Biologin, Leiterin der Bibliothek und stellvertretende Direktorin der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Recalls Koepcke: “My mother and I held hands but we were unable to speak. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. “I could see the canopy of the jungle spinning towards me,” she recalls. She remembers opening her eyes to see the canopy above her and thinking: “I survived an air crash.” Remarkably, despite having fallen a distance of more than two miles, she sustained only minor injuries: a broken collarbone, a ruptured ligament in her knee, and some deep cuts on her legs.