The Girl Who Survived a Plane Crash and Walked Out of the Amazon Jungle

The Girl Who Survived a Plane Crash and Walked Out of the Amazon

On December 24, 1971, a passenger plane broke apart in a thunderstorm over the Peruvian Amazon. Ninety-one people on board died. One did not: 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, still strapped to her row of seats, fell roughly three kilometers into the rainforest canopy below — and survived. This is the fact-checked story of the girl who … Read more