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  2. Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

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    Koepcke's survival has been the subject of numerous books and films, including the low-budget and heavily fictionalized I miracoli accadono ancora (1974) by Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Maria Scotese, which was released in English as Miracles Still Happen and is sometimes called The Story of Juliane Koepcke.

  3. Wings of Hope (film) - Wikipedia

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    Wings of Hope (German: Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel, literally "Juliane's Fall into the Jungle") is a 1998 [1] made-for-TV documentary directed by Werner Herzog.The film explores the story of Juliane Koepcke, a German Peruvian woman who was the sole survivor of Peruvian flight LANSA Flight 508 following its mid-air disintegration after a lightning strike in 1971.

  4. List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents

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    Juliane Koepcke. On 24 December 1971, as LANSA Flight 508 went down in bad weather, the 17 year old survived a 3,048 meter (10,000 ft) fall, and spent eleven days alone navigating through the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued. Annette Herfkens.

  5. Miracles Still Happen - Wikipedia

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    It features the story of Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of 92 passengers and crew, in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest.

  6. 1971 in aviation - Wikipedia

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    The only survivor is 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, who survives a 2-mile (3.2 km) fall into the rainforest strapped in her seat, her fall cushioned by the foliage, and walks for 10 days before finding help; 14 other people also survive their falls from the plane but die in the jungle without being rescued. The lost aircraft was the last one in ...

  7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.

  8. 11-Year-Old Girl Who Tried to Save Boy, 12, After He Fell ...

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    An 11-year-old girl who was taken to a hospital in critical condition after attempting to save her 12-year-old classmate's life when he fell through the surface of an icy upstate New York lake has ...

  9. Highest falls survived without a parachute - Wikipedia

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    Juliane Koepcke: 10,000 3,200 [1] 1971 Sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash, landed in seat and suffered broken collarbone and other injuries; hiked for 11 days through Peruvian rainforest to safety. [1] James Boole: 6,000 1,800 2009 British skydiver who landed in snow in Russia. Broke back and rib, but was walking within a week. [1]