Episode 419: The Unbelievable Survival Tale of Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke's story will have you questioning any recent complaint you've made. This woman was the sole survivor of a plane crash in 1971. After the plane went down, she continued to survive in the AMAZON RAINFOREST among hundreds and hundreds of predators. It took 11 days for her to be rescued and when you hear what Julianne faced within those 11 days, you will be a changed human.

When I Fell From the Sky by Juliane Koepcke

List of books to help with fear of flying OR just education on flying and flying mechanics!

Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith

Soar by Tom Bunn

BBC. 2012. Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash. March 24. Accessed November 30, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17476615.

1998. Wings of Hope. Directed by Werner Herzog. Performed by Juliane Koepcke.

Koepcke, Juliane, and Beate Rygiert. 2011. When I Fell From the Sky: the True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival. Translated by Ross Benjamin. Green Bay, WI: TitleTown Publishing, LLC.

New York Times. 1951. "Colombia Plane Crashes: 27 killed when Lansa Craft Falls." New York Times, March 22: 13.

—. 1970. "Peru panel studies crash fatal to 99." New York Times, April 13: 2.

—. 1971. "Plane Carrying 93 Missing Over the Mountains of Peru." New York Times, December 25: 20.

United Press. 1948. "2 Britons Among 30 Dead In Colombian Air Crash." New York Times, December 16: 16.

Wigg, Richard. 1972. "Girl's ordeal starts a jungle search." The Times, January 6: 5.

Williams, Sally. 2012. "The woman who fell to earth." Daily Telegraph, March 17.

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Whoa! This was incredible

Totally surprised how much I enjoyed this. Only you two could pull this off! Great job!

Juliane Koepcke

Juliane is a total bad ass and we could all learn something from her! Very inspiring.

Interesting

I love stories about badass women who overcome and keep on going. Where is the link to the tic tok?

Mega fear of flying!

Hi Ash and Alaina. I just have to say the ONLY reason I contributed to listen to this after you gave the trigger warning was because, Alana you said you could do it. You described the fear absolutely perfectly. I JUST told my wife that my fear of flying is because I feel like every time I’m walking onto the plane, it feels like I’m walking to my death. There’s this book called the pretty damn concise guide to dear of flying by Lisa Jennings and it is definitely a game changer! Any way thank you for being brave enough to make me brave enough! I fly alone in April and I’m shitting my pants but it’ll be okay! Here’s to bravery 💛 -mikayla B!

One of my favorites!!

This was such an amazing and inspiring story!

I always appreciate the thoroughness and detail from these ladies!

7 minutes in and the podcaster

Is still talking about herself. Your fear of flying is just not that interesting. We get it; you have a phobia.

Amazing story, unbelievably rude storytelling

This gets a 3 star ONLY because of the incredible story of this survivor. However I find it so ridiculously rude and disrespectful of Alaina and Ash to go on and laugh about “sinister babe” in the midst of their storytelling. If it were a funny or lighthearted story I wouldn’t mind at all, but this story is about some serious trauma where this lady not only survived a plane crash alone but also lost her mother in the process. It’s in my opinion NO ROOM for all the laughs and giggles along the way. Would’ve given the performance 0 stars if I could, and I’ve listened to pretty much every episode from morbid and been a fan since almost day one.