Strapped aboard plane wreckage hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had a fleeting thought as she glimpsed the ground 1,000 feet, or 3,000 metres, below her.  The trees in the dense Peruvian rainforest looked like heads of broccoli, she thought, while falling towards them.

A wild thunderstorm had destroyed the plane she was travelling in, and the row of seats Juliane was still harnessed to twirled through the air as it fell. She lost consciousness, assuming that odd glimpse of lush Amazon trees would be her last. 

But then, Juliane woke up.






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