Historic Photograph of an extraordinary event

[Lakota]

17 year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.
After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full.
Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.

NOTE: she is now 67 years old

[DJ_Critterus]

Who took the pic?

[Mike Mercury]

The sole survivor was 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, who while strapped to her seat fell 3,000 m (9,843 ft) into the Amazon rainforest. She survived the fall and was then able to walk through the jungle for 11 days until being rescued by local fishermen. The Electra was LANSA's last aircraft; the company lost its operating permit 11 days later.

In Koepcke’s case, experts credit the fact that she was harnessed into her plane seat during her descent for her survival, though not without breaking her collarbone.

Belted into her seat she was somewhat shielded and cushioned, but the outer seats of the row — those on each side of Koepcke, which remained attached to hers as part of a row of three — are thought to have functioned as a parachute and slowed her fall. The impact may have been lessened further by a thunderstorm updraft and the thick foliage at her landing site. As many as 14 other passengers were also later found to have survived the initial crash, but died awaiting rescue

LANSA Flight 508 - Wikipedia

[Olustee bus]

Who took the pic?

Good question as I doubt the fisherman had a camera a the time. Wonder what gives with the photo.

[Steve_R]

Good question as I doubt the fisherman had a camera a the time. Wonder what gives with the photo.

Gotta be staged. No injuries. Clean clothes. Curled hair. She wouldn't look like that after 11 days in the jungle.

[GTOguy]

Who took the pic?

A head hunter with one of the first I-phones.

[Vandelay Industries]

She's holding a selfie stick.

[Aerovette]

Good question as I doubt the fisherman had a camera a the time. Wonder what gives with the photo.

Re-enactment. Done often back in the days when the press was not present. People would assemble and pose acting like the event just happened.

[Stevedore]

If I recall, there was a movie made about her. May be a still from the movie?

[Rob]

A head hunter with one of the first I-phones.

Head hunters use eye-phones ya goof

[Rob]

Re-enactment. Done often back in the days when the press was not present. People would assemble and pose acting like the event just happened.

Now days the press just make up shit when the real event does not portray what they are needing to sell

[Yadkin]

That was two years after Ted Kennedy drowned her cousin.

Mary Jo Kopechne - Wikipedia

[Olustee bus]

Re-enactment. Done often back in the days when the press was not present. People would assemble and pose acting like the event just happened.

Yeah, I did not want to take away from miraculous thing that happened. Truly amazing and really a wonderful story.

[Lakota]

Dang, this young lady was a warrior.

"She was the only child of biologist Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and ornithologist Maria Koepcke. When Koepcke was 14, her parents left Lima to establish Panguana, a research station in the Amazon rainforest. She became a "jungle child" and learned survival techniques. Educational authorities disapproved and Koepcke was required to return to the Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt to take her examinations."

"While in the jungle, Koepcke dealt with severe insect bites and a maggot infestation in her wounded arm, but after 9 days, she was able to find an encampment. She gave herself rudimentary first aid, including pouring gasoline on the maggot infestation. The maggots vacated the wound to escape the gasoline. A few hours later, the returning loggers found her, gave her first aid, and took her to a more inhabited area, where she was airlifted to a hospital."

'After recovering from her injuries, Koepcke assisted search parties in locating the crash site and recovering the bodies of victims. Her mother's body was discovered on January 12, 1972."

"I had nightmares for a long time, for years, and of course the grief about my mother's death and that of the other people came back again and again. The thought Why was I the only survivor? haunts me. It always will.

Koepcke, 2010"

Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia
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[Aerovette]

Koepcke =/= Kopechne

[Steve_R]

Koepcke =/= Kopechne

Give up, it’s hopeless.

[dvarapala]

Re-enactment. Done often back in the days when the press was not present. People would assemble and pose acting like the event just happened.

If that happened today half the people would be screaming "fake news!"

[Yadkin]

Koepcke =/= Kopechne Surnames were often misspelled in the immigration process. :nono:

[MadInNc]

That was two years after Ted Kennedy drowned her cousin.

Mary Jo Kopechne - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne)

And I bet ya want to kiddy diddle that poor little girl, don’t ya

[Burro (He/Haw)]

Surnames were often misspelled in the immigration process. :nono:

And shortened.

[Vandelay Industries]

Give up, it’s hopeless.

:rofl:

[Yadkin]

And I bet ya want to kiddy diddle that poor little girl, don’t ya

^ Projection.

[Aerovette]

Surnames were often misspelled in the immigration process. :nono:

Proof they are cousins.