People Who Have Been Lost In The Wilderness And Lived To Tell Their Tales

Juliane Koepcke’s Battle With The Jungle

Photo Credits: Disciples of Flight

On Christmas Eve of 1971, Juliane Koepcke’s passenger plane was suddenly struck by lightning and did a nosedive into the Amazon jungle. Of the 92 passengers that were on board, she was the only survivor of the initial crash, and that was just the beginning. She escaped the plane crash with a concussion, broken collar-bone, and lacerations of her legs and arms. She then spent the next nine days in the Amazonian jungle without her glasses and wearing nothing but a minidress. She eventually found a boat and waited next to it where she was later found.