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A fear of flying is one of the most common amongst people today.

Although it’s unlikely to happen, terrifying stories, like Patsy Cline’s untimely passing, keep many folks on the edge of their plane seats with their seat belts tightly strapped.


The story of 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke is a little bit different. It may not make you keen to fly again, but it certainly proves that the human will to survive has no limits.

According to BBC, the German-Peruvian teenager was flying over the Amazon in 1971 with her mother, when the plane suddenly combusted after being hit by lightning.

Juliane fell 2 miles back down to earth. Miraculously, she survived to tell the tale, though her mother tragically didn’t survive the aftermath of the plane crash.


Astonishingly, surviving that impossible-sounding fall was just the beginning of what would be a very tough 10 days in the jungle before being rescued.

A regular person wouldn’t have survived either ordeal, but luckily, Juliane was definitely no ordinary teenage girl.

[H/T: BBC]