Three passengers still strapped to their row of seats had hit the ground with such force that they were half buried in the earth. Juliane Koepcke was born on October 10, 1954 in Lima, Peru into a German-Peruvian family. When I went to touch it and realised it was real, it was like an adrenaline shot. Most unbearable among the discomforts was the disappearance of her eyeglasses she was nearsighted and one of her open-back sandals. Her final destination was Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, on and off, with her mother, Maria, and her father, Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, both zoologists. I had a wound on my upper right arm. I hadnt left the plane; the plane had left me.CreditLaetitia Vancon for The New York Times. Taking grip of her body, she frantically searched for her mother but all in vain. Hardcover. Her father, Hand Wilhelm Koepcke, was a biologist who was working in the city of Pucallpa while her mother, Maria Koepcke, was an ornithologist. 78K 78 2.6K 2.6K comments Best Add a Comment Sleeeepy_Hollow 2 yr. ago Julian Koepckes miraculous survival brought her immense fame. They thought I was a kind of water goddess - a figure from local legend who is a hybrid of a water dolphin and a blonde, white-skinned woman. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day miracle. Juliane finally pried herself from her plane seat and stumbled blindly forward. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt, List of sole survivors of aviation accidents or incidents, "Sole survivor: the woman who fell to earth", "Survivor still haunted by 1971 air crash", "17-Year-Old Only Survivor in Peruvian Accident", "She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away", "Condecoran a Juliane Koepcke por su labor cientfica y acadmica en la Amazona peruana", "IMDb: The Story of Juliane Koepcke (1975)", Plane Crashes Since 1970 with a Sole Survivor, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juliane_Koepcke&oldid=1142163025, Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents, Wikipedia articles with style issues from May 2022, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Larisa Savitskaya, Soviet woman who was the sole survivor of, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 21:29.