Juliane koepcke biography definition

I was paralysed bygd panic. It was the first time I had seen a dead body.

I thought my mother could be one of them but when I touched the corpse with a stick, inom saw that the woman's toenails were painted - my mother never polished her nails.

I was immediately relieved but then felt ashamed of that thought.

By the 10th day I couldn't stand properly and I drifted along the edge of a larger river I had found. inom felt so lonely, like inom was in a parallel universum far away from any human being.

I thought I was hallucinating when I saw a really large boat. When I went to touch it and realised it was real, it was like an adrenaline shot.

But [then I saw] there was a small path into the jungle where I found a hut with a palm leaf roof, an outboard motor and a litre of gasoline.

I had a wound on my upper right arm. It was infested with maggots about one centimetre long. I remembered our dog had the same infection and my father had pu

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When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

September 2, 2013

There is no doubt that Juliane Koepcke has an incredible story to tell. To survive a fall from 10,000 or so feet by landing in a thick, uninhabited jungle in Amazonian Peru is, by itself, a true miracle. But then to survive 11 days in that jungle, and finally to find her way back to civilization, is yet another truly miraculous event and one that makes for a great story. The descriptions of her fears and shock at discovering that she was the sole survivor of the 1971 plane crash, and the sad loss of her mother in that crash, as well as her guilt at being alive when so many others died, is truly heartrending.

The title and all the promotion surrounding this book would have you believe that the book is all about the crash and its aftermath. However, only 2 of the 19 chapters deal with these events in any detail. The majority of the rest of the book is about Panguana, a section of jungl

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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash. When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries including a concussion, broken collarbone, and a torn knee ligament. She survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she rescued herself after finding a local lumberjack camp.

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Juliane Koepcke
Koepcke in April 2019
Born	(1954-10-10) 10 October 1954 (age 70) Lima, Peru
Occupation	Mammalogist
Spouse	Erich Diller ​ ​ (m. 1989)​
Relatives	Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke (father) Maria Koepcke (mother)

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Koepcke was born in Lima, Peru, on 10 October 1954, the only child of German zoologists Maria (née von Mikulicz-