‘THIS IS THE END, IT’S ALL OVER’ As LANSA flight 508 flew through the thunderstorm, the plane with 91 people on board was battered with severe turbulence. Luggage, including Christmas ...

When LANSA Flight 508 was struck by lightning on Christmas Eve in 1971, a 17-year-old girl named Juliane Koepcke plummeted 10,000 feet from the sky and landed in the Amazon rainforest. Somehow ...

On Christmas Eve, 1971, Koepcke boarded LANSA Flight 508 (a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop plane) with her mother and 84 other passengers. The flight left from Lima, Peru, and was scheduled to ...

A bolt of lightning hit the right wing of the aircraft, and suddenly LANSA Flight 508 was plummeting toward the ground. Over the screams of dozens of others, Koepcke heard her mother say from the ...

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 ...

Juliane Diller’s mother booked the pair seats in the penultimate row of Lansa flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa in Peru to be reunited with her husband for the Christmas holidays. Juliane was ...

Juliane Koepcke returned to the crash site in 2000 On Christmas Eve 1971, lightning struck Lansa Flight 508 over Peru, causing it to explode. Juliane Koepcke was the only survivor of the 92 people ...

As LANSA flight 508 flew through the thunderstorm, the plane with 91 people on board was battered with severe turbulence. Luggage, including Christmas presents, bounced around the cabin.