Survivor: I Fell Two Miles Strapped To A Row Of Seats
(On 7/2/09 CNN Europe published a first-person account by Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 which crashed in a Peruvian rainforest on December 24, 1971.)
As the plane broke into pieces in midair, Koepcke was thrust out into the open air:
"Suddenly there was this amazing silence. The plane was gone. I must have been unconscious and then came to in midair. I was flying, spinning through the air and I could see the forest spinning beneath me."
Last edited by mbstone; Jul 8, 09 at 12:58 am.
Reason: Add link to her Wikipedia entry, where two movies are referenced
Truly an amazing story. The impact is somewhat reduced because of the long time past. After reading it, it struck me: How awful would it have been to survive that crash, then die from an infection of a wound while walking back?
I swear I saw a movie about this on the late, late show about 20 years ago. I remember it because it was about a young woman who survived a plane crash, wandering around the Amazon with an infected arm/shoulder with the maggots (which is why I remembered it - ugh). It was a foreign film, more like a documentary, probably made in Europe......or was it so late that I was just dreaming ??? Has anyone else seen this ?
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