Posted on 11/26/2022 10:08:36 PM PST by SmokingJoe
In December 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke and her mother were traveling to see her father on LANSA Flight 508 when the plane was felled by lightning and broke apart. Considered the worst lightning strike in history, the crash ultimately led to the loss of every passenger on board - except Koepcke. The teenager plunged two miles through the air to the floor of a Peruvian jungle, still strapped to her seat. Despite this harrowing experience, she lived to tell the tale. Koepcke, who miraculously suffered only minimal harm, ventured through the forest for 11 days seeking help.
Just 10 minutes long. Worth watching.
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Wow, what a survival story! God was certainly watching over her!
BFL
Amazing!
SFL.
Only by the grace of God and how He uses His creations. She was in the middle of three seats (apparently the other two were empty) and the width plus spiraling (that part she remembers) was enough to somehow act as a sort of parachute in slowing her descent, and the forest canopy/foliage may have helped, as well. This is what was surmised by those who investigated the crash.
Because You haven’t completed Plan that God has for You.
Stewardess survives 33 000ft crash:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/air-stewardess-who-survived-record-9511212
The Almighty says, “Sorry, your reservations aren’t for today.”
bmp
Amen MaBarker. Thank you for a fine bio =:^)
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Perhaps the most harrowing part for her was not being able to text.
In 1971?
“In 1971?”
Really?
Guilty of only reading the headline.
But I think I’m in good company... ;)
“I still don’t see how you fall 2 miles from a broken plane and still survive”
She was in the rear of the airplane that broke free. It was probably spinning as it came down. This would cause lift on the horizontal stabilizer thus slowing the velocity of the fall and then plunged into the jungle tree canopy further slowing the fall.
It was not her day to die>
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