Juliane Koepcke
Sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 and mammalogist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke /Joo-lia-nay, KOP-kay/ (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash; after falling 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffering numerous injuries, she survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she was rescued by local fishermen after finding their camp.
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Juliane Koepcke | |
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Born | (1954-10-10) 10 October 1954 (age 69) Lima, Peru |
Occupation | Mammalogist |
Spouse |
Erich Diller
(m. 1989) |
Relatives | Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke (father) Maria Koepcke (mother) |
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