Juliane Koepcke was only 17 when her plane broke apart during a storm over Peru. After falling nearly 10,000 feet into the ...

Juliane Koepcke was 17 years old on Christmas Eve 1971, when the plane supposed to fly her and 91 other passengers from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa, Peru, was struck by lightning and exploded in the air.

Strapped aboard plane wreckage hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had a fleeting thought as she glimpsed the ground 3,000 metres below her. The trees in the dense ...

Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and ...

LANSA flight 508 went down in the Amazon rainforest after a lightning bolt struck the wing. The German teenager was the sole survivor. Juliane Koepcke’s story was just that - in a remarkable, a one-in ...

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 ...

orn in 1954, Juliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. Born to German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, Juliane, at the age of 14, left Lima with her parents ...

MUNICH, Germany (CNN)-- Juliane Koepcke is not someone you'd expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in ...

The origins of a viral image frequently attached to Juliane Koepcke's story are unknown. This photograph most likely shows an actress in the movie about Koepcke, "Miracles Still Happen," not Koepcke ...