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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke /Joo-lia-nay, KOP-kay/ (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats.
Oct 1, 2022 · Strapped aboard plane wreckage hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had a fleeting thought as she glimpsed the ground 3,000 metres below her.
Mar 10, 2024 · Life following the traumatic crash was difficult for Juliane Koepcke. She became a media spectacle — and she was not always portrayed in a sensitive light. Koepcke developed a deep fear of flying, and for years, she had recurring nightmares. But she survived as she had in the jungle.
Mar 24, 2012 · Juliane Koepcke was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother when her plane was hit by lightning. She survived a two-mile fall and found herself alone in the jungle, just 17....
Jan 16, 2024 · Discover the incredible story of Juliane Koepcke, the teenager who defied the odds, surviving 11 days in the jungle after a 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash.
Jun 14, 2023 · Juliane Koepcke's survival story was echoed this week when four children were found alive 40 days after their plane went down in the Amazon.
Jun 24, 2013 · When she was 17, Juliane Koepcke dropped 10,000 feet into the Amazon rain forest. She describes how she survived—alone.
Nov 15, 2022 · Caused by a lightning strike, the Lockheed L-188 Electra partially broke up while flying at more than 20,000 feet, and crashed into the Amazon rainforest below. Its sole survivor has a rather remarkable recovery story.
Mar 12, 2024 · On Christmas Eve in 1971, a young woman's life changed forever when she found herself plummeting through the sky in the midst of a thunderstorm. That woman was Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a tragic plane crash in the Peruvian rainforest.
Jun 18, 2021 · At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.
