Who Fell to Earth as a Teenager?
Juliana was still strapped into her seat when the plane was struck by lightning and shattered into pieces. She fell 10,000 feet into the rainforest. When Juliane Koepcke’s plane crashed while flying from Lima in Peru to the Amazon rainforest, there were no other survivors. In order to survive, the adolescent ate candy from the pockets of a dead passenger she came across while walking and used gasoline to treat her wounds.
Three missionaries found her when she walked towards a camp after she had been walking for days and took her to the hospital on a boat. Juliane was the only survivor of the 91 people on board, including her mother. She was 17 years old when she made it through 11 days in the Peruvian rainforest on her own.