After his plane crashed during the Vietnam War, Lieutenant John McCain was captured and tortured repeatedly for nearly 5 years until he was finally released. He even turned down an early release offer on one occasion saying that unless every other prisoner that came after him was released he wouldn’t leave
She was the sole survivor of LANSA flight 508 that came apart mid-air over the Peruvian rainforest after being struck by lightning. Juliane fell thousands of feet still strapped into her chair but her fall was cushioned by the jungle canopy and she survived with only a broken collarbone. Luckily there was a stream nearby and after following it for 9 days she was rescued by loggers.