How this teenager survived a plane crash – injured, alone and in harsh land : She walked 11 days through the dense Amazon forest and…
At 17, Juliane Koepcke was not chasing an adventure story. She was trying to get home for Christmas. On Dec. 24, 1971, she and her mother boarded LANSA Flight 508 in Lima, Peru, bound for Pucallpa and then their family’s research station in the Amazon. About 20 minutes before landing, the sky turned violent. A…