When Juliane Koepcke and her mother Maria boarded Lansa Flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa in Peru, they were angry at the flight already being seven hours late.

Herzog went on to a make a documentary on Juliane, Wings of Hope. The mother-daughter duo was on the way to Panguana, where Maria and her husband Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke had set up a research centre.

Wings of Hope, a documentary about Juliane's incredible survival story, saw the mammalogist travel back to the Amazon for the first time and revisit the crash site.

AeroTime looks at three incredible sole survivors who miraculously escaped from deadly crashes and went on to explain how the experience impacted their lives.

orn in 1954, Juliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. Born to German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, Juliane, at the age of 14, left Lima with her ...

On December 24, 1971, Juliane Koepcke was flying with her mother on LANSA Flight 508 when lightning struck, sending the plane crashing 10,000 feet into the Amazon rainforest. Miraculously ...