As best I can figure, that is Juliane Koepcke poling in the bow of a dugout in the Amazon rain forest of Peru, where she was raised by her biologist parents.
Juliane who? Someone who double survived things that none of us have.
17-year old Juliane Koepcke was the only survivor of LANSA Flight 508 on Christmas Eve 1971, the deadliest lightning-strike disaster in aviation history. The plane broke apart at 10,000 feet and Juliane survived a two mile plunge into the jungle while strapped into her three-across seat, which got thrown free from the plane as it disintegrated.
With only a broken collar bone and some deep cuts, plus lost eyeglasses and one lost shoe, Juliane then survived 11 days of wandering in the Amazon jungle with only a small bag of candy for food. She came upon an outboard motorboat and siphoned gasoline into her deep cuts to kill the maggots that were infesting them. Finally, she was rescued.
She grew up to get a Ph.D. in zoology, specializing in bats.
Here are two articles about her ordeal and a 1998 documentary.
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.
www.nytimes.com
Midflight, the plane flew into a dangerous thunderstorm and was struck by lightning. At 10,000 feet, the plane broke apart and disintegrated. Passengers and wreckage plummeted to the ground. Juliane, still strapped into her seat, fell nearly two miles to the remote rainforest below.
historydaily.org
