Juliane Koepcke and the LANSA Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror



“On the 24th of December, 1971, LANSA Flight 508 was flying from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru when it encountered a storm and was struck by lightning…”

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:35 – Background
02:58 – The LANSA Disaster
07:26 – The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► Panguana Biological Research Station Website. Link: https://panguana.de/
► “When I Fell From The Sky” by Juliane Koepcke, published by TitleTown Publishing, 2011.
► “The Checkered History of Peruvian Carrier LANSA” by Pranjal Pande, published by Simple Flying, April 2022. Link: https://simpleflying.com/lansa-checkered-history/
► “Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash” published by the BBC World Service, March 2012. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17476615

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43 thoughts on “Juliane Koepcke and the LANSA Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror”

  1. Reminds me of the Russian fight attendant who's plane broke up at 35,000 ft she had strapped herself into her jump seat in the tail of the aircraft just before the tail itself broke away and she fell that whole 35k ft fully conscious. She said she was pinned in by a large metal refrigerator from the galley and somehow it cushioned her impact plus the spinning effect, then she survived at the Siberian wilderness for like a week with a tiger stalking her at one point and was eventually rescued and she was the only survivor.

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  2. One extra bit I recall from reading about her story was when she found the other 3 victims

    "On the fourth day, I heard the noise of a landing king vulture which I recognised from my time at my parents' reserve. I was afraid because I knew they only land when there is a lot of carrion and I knew it was bodies from the crash. When I turned a corner in the creek, I found a bench with three passengers rammed head first into the earth. I was paralysed by panic. It was the first time I had seen a dead body.

    I thought my mother could be one of them but when I touched the corpse with a stick, I saw that the woman's toenails were painted – my mother never polished her nails.

    I was immediately relieved but then felt ashamed of that thought."

    For some reason her dread and the painted nails always stuck in my head

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  3. Juliane is truly a remarkable woman and it's a testament to her bravery, strength, knowledge and ingenuity that she survived. Most people don't have that level of combined skill to get through what she did.

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