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re: Miracle survival story of Juliane Koepcke
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:11 am to TheHarahanian
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:11 am to TheHarahanian
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Edit: NVM, “It was later determined that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial crash but died awaiting rescue.”
I'm guessing the other survivors suffered severe leg trauma. Koepcke got lucky in the fact that she didn't suffer broken legs and could walk out.
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Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:12 am to redstick13
when does the movie come out?
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:13 am to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:14 am to MorbidTheClown
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when does the movie come out?
gas from the boat, right, just went back and re-read,
may have already been one? I know there's a book because I've read
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:15 am to redstick13
i mean the movie...with one of the Disney child actors in the starring role.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:17 am to MorbidTheClown
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Disney child actors
I'll take Britney, in ragged post-crash, tattered clothes for $100
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:18 am to WestCoastAg
It is speculated that her mother was still alive after the crash but died of her injuries hours after the accident.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:20 am to redstick13
There were a couple of episodes like this in WW2.
Nicholas Alkemade jumped from his burning bomber, without a parachute, and survived the 18,000 foot drop.
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Nicholas Alkemade jumped from his burning bomber, without a parachute, and survived the 18,000 foot drop.
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Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:21 am to 777Tiger
The fuel was from the boat.
so gasoline.
so gasoline.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:22 am to Leotiger725
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The fuel was from the boat.
so gasoline.
diesel?
jk
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:24 am to redstick13
Her parents were german scientist that had moved to South America from germany....not saying Nazis...but...
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:25 am to NYCAuburn
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..not saying Nazis
did Nazi that coming!
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:28 am to Lima Whiskey
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Vesna Vulovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ???????, pronounced [?êsna ?û?lo?it?]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi)
Posted on 2/8/21 at 11:33 am to redstick13
Posted on 2/8/21 at 12:45 pm to upgrayedd
I recall that these were parasitic larvae of some kind of fly that lays its eggs under the skin. She used a prong of a ring to pluck out the ones she could see and reach. I saw a documentary on this about 20 years ago and have told the story many times. Unbelievable what she went through.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 1:06 pm to redstick13
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Somehow her mother actually survived the fall as well. There had to be something unusual going on for them to both survive a fall of that height with only an airplane seat strapped to them.
The theory I remember is when her seat was ejected from the airplane her entire row ejected as one intact unit. The seats had a high rotational velocity that created a little bit of lift and cushioned her descent into the canopy below.
Another cool airplane survival story is “I alone survived” which is a great book and there was a TV movie made about it in the 90s.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 1:08 pm to redstick13
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As a teenager in 1971, Koepcke was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash, then survived ten days alone in the Amazon rainforest. She survived a fall of 3,000 meters (9843 feet), still strapped to her seat.
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The LANSA Lockheed L-188 Electra OB-R-941 commercial airliner was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and broke-up in mid-air, disintegrating 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) above the ground. Koepcke, still strapped onto her seat, survived the fall to earth, suffering a broken collarbone, a gash to her left leg and to her right arm, and her right eye was swollen shut
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Surviving on sweets she found at the site, Koepcke waded downstream through knee-high water, as her father had taught her that tracking downstream should eventually lead to civilization. After ten days, she found a boat moored near a small shelter. She poured gasoline from the fuel tank on her wounds to clear them of maggots and spent the night in the shelter. Koepcke said: "I remained there but I wanted to leave. I didn't want to take the boat because I didn't want to steal it." The next morning, a small group of local fishermen discovered her and brought her to their village. The following day, a local pilot volunteered to fly her to a hospital in Pucallpa, where she was reunited with her father.
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It is known that she was belted into her seat and thus somewhat shielded and cushioned, but it also has been theorized that the outer seats of the row—those on each side of Koepcke, which remained attached to hers as part of a row of three—functioned as a parachute and slowed her fall.
Damn. That's an incredible story.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 1:08 pm to uaslick
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She used a prong of a ring to pluck out the ones she could see and reach.
more rambo type shite.
Posted on 2/8/21 at 1:08 pm to FredsGotSlacks
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Another cool airplane survival story is “I alone survived” which is a great book and there was a TV movie made about it in the 90s.
there's a book and maybe a couple of movies about a soccer team that crashed in the Andes and resorted to cannibalism for survival
Posted on 2/8/21 at 1:09 pm to FredsGotSlacks
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The theory I remember is when her seat was ejected from the airplane her entire row ejected as one intact unit. The seats had a high rotational velocity that created a little bit of lift and cushioned her descent into the canopy below.
She probably was lucky to land in a marsh...and not a tree.
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