Juliane Koepcke =Story of Survival

[elkhound]

@Sourdough @Pearl yall going to love this story.

 

[Pearl]

I was 3 when that happened! I remember! Thanks elkhound! I remember being in the basement of my Dad's best friend/ also our neighbor. The "old" console TV was recently moved down there. There was the pool table. I remember the name, some of the story! I relate...sometimes you know things/ how to do things before you should! Did she know what she knew from a previous life?

 

[Weedygarden]

@Sourdough @Pearl yall going to love this story.

Ever wonder what happened that she lived after falling that far?

 

[INresponse]

Ever wonder what happened that she lived after falling that far?

This was my guess, but below I will post what is written in wikipedia.
Belted into the chair was probably the the key, assuming she landed in water chair first. The chair would have dispersed the impact to the water. I can't imagine landing on anything else being survivable. Crashing through small tree branches or vines might help reduce the impact but I think that would cause the chair to tumble and resulting injuries would be severe. If she was sucked out of the plain I assume that is where she got the cuts to her arm.

Per Wiki....
"Koepcke's unlikely survival has been the subject of much speculation. She is known to have been belted into her seat, thus 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.[3][4] The impact may have been lessened further by a thunderstorm updraft and the thick foliage at her landing site.[3][4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

 

[Weedygarden]

This was my guess, but below I will post what is written in wikipedia.
Belted into the chair was probably the the key, assuming she landed in water chair first. The chair would have dispersed the impact to the water. I can't imagine landing on anything else being survivable. Crashing through small tree branches or vines might help reduce the impact but I think that would cause the chair to tumble and resulting injuries would be severe. If she was sucked out of the plain I assume that is where she got the cuts to her arm.

Per Wiki....
"Koepcke's unlikely survival has been the subject of much speculation. She is known to have been belted into her seat, thus 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.[3][4] The impact may have been lessened further by a thunderstorm updraft and the thick foliage at her landing site.[3][4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

That makes sense, to have landed in water. Three seats attached to one another would make a bit of a parachute, but would also spread the impact. My mind is like this: I wonder if the rest of her family were on the plane and therefore died? I wonder about her life now, if she is still alive and what the impact of being lost for 10 days as a young girl had on her?

 

[elkhound]

That makes sense, to have landed in water. Three seats attached to one another would make a bit of a parachute, but would also spread the impact. My mind is like this: I wonder if the rest of her family were on the plane and therefore died? I wonder about her life now, if she is still alive and what the impact of being lost for 10 days as a young girl had on her?

looks like shes had a very good life.



Koepcke's unlikely survival has been the subject of much speculation. She is known to have been belted into her seat, thus 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.[3][4] The impact may have been lessened further by a thunderstorm updraft and the thick foliage at her landing site.[3][4]

Koepcke moved to Germany, where she fully recovered from her injuries. Like her parents, she studied biology at the University of Kiel and graduated in 1980.[5] She received a doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and returned to Peru to conduct research in mammalogy, specializing in bats.[5] Koepcke published her thesis, Ecological study of a bat colony in the tropical rain forest of Peru, in 1987.[6] In 1989, Koepcke married Erich Diller, an entomologist who specializes in parasitic wasps.[7] In 2000, Koepcke took over as the director of Panguana, following the death of her father.[7]

Now known as Juliane Diller, she serves as librarian at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich.[3] Her autobiography, When I Fell from the Sky (German: Als ich vom Himmel fiel), was released on 10 March 2011 by Piper Verlag,[8] for which she received the Corine Literature Prize in 2011.[9] In 2019, the government of Peru awarded her the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, in the degree of Grand Officer.[

 

[Weedygarden]

You can watch the movie of her life or rather her experience for free on Youtube!

 

[Weedygarden]

Most of this movie's cast is comprised by the people who actually lived the story of Juliane Koepcke...including pilot Clyde Peters, the nun at the hospital, and the woodcutters who found and rescued Juliane. The exceptions are Susan Penhaligon, the actors who portray Juliane's parents and, naturally, the crew and other passengers of the ill-fated airliner.

 

[Weedygarden]

Juliane's father told her, “The Amazon is like an enormous spider with rivers flowing to the sea. And if you ever get lost in a jungle, the most important thing is to find a watercourse, even if it is only a trickle because it will join another one and become a stream and the stream will flow into a river and then into a larger river and on a large river, there are always people.” She did just that.

 

[Weedygarden]

How she survived:

 

[Weedygarden]

There was a documentary made about her as well, in 7 parts on Youtube. I believe that after you watch the first part, it will take you to the next.

 

[Sourdough]

Does anyone have "Not believable" things they personally experienced, that they fear ever talking about.

 

[Tirediron]

I have made it through some pretty sketchy situations winter road trucking, things went in my favour more than once, maybe multiple times on the same run. winter road stuff is a far different event than described on the drama channel, Ice road"truckers".

 

[Sourdough]

Are there credible groups/organizations that will research incredible things that happened?

 

[SLADE]

Ripleys believe it or not?

 

[Tirediron]

Are there credible groups/organizations that will research incredible things that happened?

I seriously doubt it , they seem to get infiltrated with drama queens and the story goes sideways.