She could never have known that her parents’ survival lessons would one day save her life… PA Photos TAGS: latest. They thought I was a kind of water goddess - a figure from local legend who is a hybrid of a water dolphin and a blonde, white-skinned woman.But I introduced myself in Spanish and explained what had happened. She found her neck, shoulder, and ankle to be not in a very good condition as she was feeling severe pain.

Those were the last words I ever heard from her.The plane jumped down and went into a nose-dive. Juliane was horrified looking at the scene, and judging by the clothing, she found 2 of the victims were male.As she moved on, on the 5th and 6th day of her survival journey, she heard a sound that gave her hope. Peruvian-German conservationist Juliane Koepcke poses during an interview with AFP in Lima on October 10, 2014. I was completely alone.I had broken my collarbone and had some deep cuts on my legs but my injuries weren't serious. I felt so lonely, like I was in a parallel universe far away from any human being.I thought I was hallucinating when I saw a really large boat. She started walking, throwing her single sandal in front of her to test the area as there could be snakes camouflaged as dry leaves that she didn’t want to get bitten by.As moving forward, she found a few wrecks of the crash, where she, fortunately, found a bag of candies that she knew would keep her energy levels up for a while. It was like hearing the voices of angels.When they saw me, they were alarmed and stopped talking. My mother was anxious but I was OK, I liked flying.Ten minutes later it was obvious that something was very wrong.There was very heavy turbulence and the plane was jumping up and down, parcels and luggage were falling from the locker, there were gifts, flowers and Christmas cakes flying around the cabin.When we saw lightning around the plane, I was scared. Later I learned that the plane had broken into pieces about two miles above the ground.I woke the next day and looked up into the canopy.

My mother said very calmly: "That is the end, it's all over." More than 40 years later, she recalls what happened.It was Christmas Eve 1971 and everyone was eager to get home, we were angry because the plane was seven hours late.Suddenly we entered into a very heavy, dark cloud.

She became a “jungle child” by gaining knowledge about wildlife and a lot more, that no other kid of her age would usually have. These are external links and will open in a new windowJuliane Koepcke was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother when her plane was hit by lightning. Despite everything, she excelled her college, studying zoology just like her parents and got a PhD. "I shouted out for my mother in but I only heard the sounds of the jungle. It was the first time I had seen a dead body.I thought my mother could be one of them but when I touched the corpse with a stick, I saw that the woman's toenails were painted - my mother never polished her nails.I was immediately relieved but then felt ashamed of that thought.By the 10th day I couldn't stand properly and I drifted along the edge of a larger river I had found. Hans-Wilhelm previously advised Maria to avoid flying with this particular airline, but she probably thought they would be fine, and eventually ended up booking a flight for the same day with LANSA.As scheduled, the flight was a Lockheed L-188 Electra commercial airliner (Flight 508) which took off from Jorge Chávez International Airport just before noon. Due to a rainy season, there were no fruits that she could pick either. Exhausted and starving, Juliane was plagued with hallucinations of civilization, sometimes she saw the roof of a house or heard chicken clucking.

Further investigation revealed that Julian’s mother and 14 other passengers also survived the plane crash, but perished due to their injuries before they could be found. Koepcke, survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon in 1971, urged the United Nations ahead of its crucial conference on climate on December, to defend the rainforests from the threats of global warming with immediate action before it's too late. She was able to drew out a mass of maggots that were infecting her arm from a long time using this survival technique she had learned.Juliane knew that she might end up meeting people very soon if she kept herself awake and then she followed another small path that led to another shack where she hoped someone to arrive, but after a while when no one showed up, she decided to spend the night at the shack. I learned a lot about life in the rainforest, that it wasn't too dangerous. Koepcke returned to the crash scene in 1998 He could barely talk and in the first moment we just held each other.For the next few days, he frantically searched for news of my mother. The first thought I had was: "I survived an air crash. How Juliane Koepcke Survived A Plane Crash And 11 Days Alone In The Amazon – rnkr.co/gtngj Juliane not only survived a plane crash, falling from 9,800 feet, but she also survived 11 days through the Amazon rainforest before being found by a group of lumbermen.This all seems unbelievable at first, but behind the survival of Koepcke was her luck and the knowledge she gained from her parents at an early age. I had lost one shoe but I kept the other because I am very short-sighted and had lost my glasses, so I used that shoe to test the ground ahead of me as I walked.Snakes are camouflaged there and they look like dry leaves. I was in a freefall, strapped to my seat bench and hanging head-over-heels. The trek ahead was rough, with uneven terrain, which made her to frequently climb over or squeeze under huge tree logs that blocked her way.After walking for a while, she ended up finding a small creek, which she followed as taught by her father that flowing water leads to rivers which often means civilizations nearby.Over the next few days or so, Juliane stumbled through the rainforest following the water as it slowly grew from a trickle to a stream.