Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke

In 1971, a high school student named Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 3.2 kilometers to the ground still strapped to her chair and lived, only to endure a 9-day walk to the nearest civilization. She was the lone survivor from the crash.

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