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Plane Crashed From 3000 Meters Into Abyss. Girl Was The Sole Survivor
A seventeen-year-old girl survived a plane crash - one thing saved her.
TL;DR
- Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash after LANSA Flight 508 broke apart in mid-air due to a storm.
- She fell 3,048 meters (10,000 feet) strapped to her seat and was the only survivor among 92 passengers.
- Koepcke spent 11 days in the Amazon rainforest, surviving on candy and using survival skills learned from her zoologist parents.
- She was eventually rescued by local woodsmen and taken to a hospital.
- Koepcke recovered, helped locate the crash site and victims, and later became director of the Panguana research station.