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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.
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...
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 · Juliane Koepcke was seated in 19F beside her mother in the 86-passenger plane when suddenly, they found themselves in the midst of a massive thunderstorm. The plane flew into a swirl of pitch-black clouds with flashes of lightning glistening through the windows.
Jun 24, 2013 · Forestry workers discovered Juliane Koepcke on January 3, 1972, after she’d survived 11 days in the rain forest, and delivered her to safety. Ninety-one people, including Juliane’s mother ...
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 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. Juliane Diller...
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.
Jul 5, 2024 · Juliane Koepcke was born in Lima, Peru, to two German zoologists, Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke. The couple worked at Lima's Museum of Natural History. Her life was anything but ordinary.
Nov 15, 2022 · December 24th, 1971 saw the crash that effectively ended LANSA's time as an operational airline. 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.
