The jungle looks like a pretty fun place in cartoons.

It appears to be a hotspot for adventure in the movies.

Yulean Kopka, a teenager at the time of this story, knew the adventure part.

She, unlike most German teenagers, or most teenagers in general,

had spent time in the jungle,

not enough to master its secrets to survival,

but apparently just enough to give it a problem,

killing her, after the plane crash failed to do it.

Welcome to Maroon, stories of the catastrophically lost. I'm Jack Luna.

This is Aaron Hable. December 24, 1971, Jorge Chavez International Airport, Lima, Peru. 17-year-old

Julian Akopka and her mother, Maria Kopka, elbow their way through a crowded departure hall on their way to check in for Lansa Flight 508.

It's Christmas Eve, and the airport is overwhelmed with last-minute holiday travelers.

The day prior, Yuliana had celebrated with friends at prom, having just graduated high school.

Today she's bound for Pukalpa, Peru, and then onto the heart

of the Amazon rainforest, where her father is stationed at their family's remote wildlife research

outpost. Both of Yuliana's parents are respected German zoologists at the Museum of Natural

History in Lima. When Yuliana was 14, she ventured into the Amazon rainforest with her parents to establish

the Panguana Research Station.

The research station quickly became a second home tour.

She spent months there researching with her parents, learning survival skills, and experiencing

life in the rainforest.

Eventually having to return to Lima to finish her education, she would travel to the

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