17 year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.

After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full. Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds, an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm.

Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.

Tuff county girl...is she still around?

Pretty little girl isn’t she!
I’ve seen the pic and remember the story

They think 14 other people survived the crash, but didn't survive being injured in the jungle.

Keith

Having also been in a small jet that got hit by lightening over the Amazon this was an interesting read. Luckily I didn’t get sucked out of the plane!

Found this on Wikipedia....very interesting read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

I remember this,

Guardian angel …..

Wow.....quite the story.Thanks for sharing it.

Truth-Wow

Amazing story !

Thanks R&N

Is that the same last name of the girl that one of the Kennedy's drowned in Cap cod 50 years ago????? I remember seeing sign pointing to "Teddy's swimming hole" up there and asking about it.....jk

Another learning experience thanks to Trapperman. I am sure this made the news when it happened but I do not recall ever hearing about it.

No, that was Mary Jo Kopechne and she died at Chappaquiddick Island in 69.

She is

Amazing little girl; what resilience and stamina!