In 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke fell nearly 10,000 feet from a plane struck by lightning over the Amazon, survived still strapped to her seat, then wandered alone through the rainforest for 11 days before loggers found her

Human resilience is put to the test in the hardest way possible at times. On Christmas Eve of 1971, what started as an ordinary journey through the Peruvian rainforest led to one of the most amazing survival stories in the history of aviation. A regular passenger flight full of travellers flying on holiday got caught up in a storm and was hit by lightning. This resulted in the breakup of the plane mid-air and the scattering of its passengers in a rugged and inaccessible region.

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