On Christmas Eve 1971, German teenager Juliane Koepcke was sitting next to her mother on a plane. Juliane had just graduated from high school in Lima, Peru, and was on her way to the Amazon region of Peru. There, she and her mother planned to meet up with her father, biologist Hans Koepecke. But the plane 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 from the crash.