Teen Girl Who Fell 2 Miles Out Of An Airplane Emerges Alive Ten Days Later

[Music] teen girl who fell two miles out of an airplane emerges alive ten days later but before we start please make sure to subscribe to did you know and hit the bell so you never miss an upload from us also leave a like right now although flying an airplane is usually safe when handled by professionals plenty of people still Harbor a serious phobia of taking to the blue skies it's an understandable fear after all human beings weren't made to fly more often than not commercial flights are uneventful except for perhaps a little bit of turbulence sometimes however things can go horribly wrong and it's those stories that tend to make the news when a teenager boarded a flight from Peru to Germany with her mother she expected to be home in time for Christmas she had no idea that she was putting her very life on the line Juliane Koepke was never your average little girl she was born to German parents while they were living and working in Peru her mother was an ornithologist and her father was a zoologist so it was only natural that Julianne would spend a lot of time with them as they studied the Amazon her parents had built a survival outpost in the middle of the jungle where the family spent most of their days and nights because they were so cut off from the world Julianne had to learn how to survive on her own in the wilderness unbeknownst to her these skills would be something that would pay off in a big way later in her life Julianne and her parents made many trips from Peru back home to Germany so that they could stay in touch with family and friends on the night of her high school graduation which happened to be Christmas Eve Julianne and her mother boarded a flight bound for Germany that's when everything changed they weren't in the air too long before they flew directly into a deadly storm after about ten minutes I saw a very bright light on the outer engine on the left my mother said very calmly that is the end it's all over those were the last words I ever heard from her said Julianne before she knew what was happening Julianne felt her body plummeting from the sky she said suddenly the noise stopped and I was outside the plane I was in freefall strapped to my seat bench and hanging head over heels the whispering of the wind was the only noise I could hear though she remembered feeling the canopy of the Amazon jungle Julianne did not recall the crash itself however crashed she did and for ten harrowing days she was just a teenager totally cut off from the outside world forced to survive alone in the jungle without her glasses which were lost during the crash she was forced to use one of her shoes to test the ground ahead of her as she tried to find help she managed to find one bag of candy from the plane it was all the food she had for ten days on her fourth day in the jungle struggling with a broken collarbone Julianne spotted carrion birds in the distance she tracked them and discovered several victims from the plane crash I was paralyzed by panic it was the first time I had seen a dead body she said Julianne was fading fast she spent her days picking maggots from her wounds and praying for help on the tenth day a group of labourers coming to the jungle for lumber found her and were able to get her the help that she needed heartbreakingly Julian's mother did not survive the plane crash while no one knows how the young girl survived the 10,000 foot dropped from the sky Julianne is now living a happy life as a biologist a career she chose to honor her parents what an amazing story of survival there aren't too many people who would have what it takes to make it through a literal life-or-death situation like that Julianne is an amazing inspiration and her story won't soon be forgotten share this story with your friends below you

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Id: SXf4qJlEgMk

Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 01 2019