In chirstmas eve 1976,German teenag

In chirstmas eve 1976,German teenager juliane koepcke was sitting next to her mother on plane. Juliane had just graduated from high school in lima,Peru,and was on her way to pucallpa in the Amazon region of Peru,where she and her mother would meet up with her father , biologist Hans Koepcke.But the plane never made it.It was struck by lightning,and when the 17 -year-old girl looked out the window,she saw the right wing on fire.The last thing Juliane remembered was feeling herself whirling in her seat in midair and then landing in soft vegetation.She ended up on the ground two miles fromthe crash.
JULIANE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS,and she came to several hours later,still strapped in her seat.Miraculously, she had survived,but she had fractured her collabone,gashed her right arm,and lost vision in one eye.And her ordeal was just beginning.She set out to find the pland and her mother,but all she found were some empty seats.And suddenly she saw the bodies of three young women still in their seats.Of the 92 people on board the plane,Juliane was the lone survivor.Juliane then wandered away from the crash,wearing torn clothes and only one sandal to try to find help. JULIANDE HAD BEEN RAISED by her parents on an ecological site in the jungle,and she had had surviral training. Although in shock,she remember her father's advice about surviving in the jungle:she had to locate flowing water and follow it downstream until the water turned into a navigable river.Once on the river,she might come across natives or other who could help her.As she waded through jungle water,she fought off swarms of insects and leeches,not even caring when crocodiles dived in her path. She used a walking stick to make her way,prodding shapes in the water to protect herselt from lethal sting rays.
DESPITE HER BROKEN COLLARBONE and other injuries,Juliane hacked her way through the rainforest. She frequently heard planes overhead,but she had no way to signal them. She drank water,but she was too stunned to eat anything at all. On the tenth day,she stumbled onto a canoe and hut,where she was found hours later by some Peruvian lumbermen. They tried to treat her injuries. One of them used salt and kerosene to clean out the insect that were buried in her skin.