On Christmas Eve 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke was blown from a disintegrating plane after a lightning strike sent it crashing into the Peruvian rainforest. Against all odds, she survived a two-mile fall still strapped to her seat.
Injured and alone, Koepcke spent 11 days navigating the dense Amazon jungle before she was finally rescued. She was the only person to make it out alive—91 others, including her mother, perished in the crash.
