Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash and 11 days in the Amazon rainforest. LANSA Flight 508 was en route from Lima, Peru, to a town in the Amazon rainforest when it was struck by lightning and ...

The year before, a LANSA flight had crashed, killing all but one of 100 ... was originally scheduled to be on LANSA Flight 508. A last-minute change of plans in his location scouting itinerary ...

Ill-fated flight On 24 December 1971, Koepcke flew on LANSA Flight 508 after her graduation ... 14 others too survived the crash, but died while waiting to be rescued. Later, Koepcke helped ...

The airline, LANSA, had already lost two aircraft in ... Ninety-one other people aboard Flight 508 died. Koepcke says she is not a spiritual person and has tried to find logical explanations ...