Plane Disintegrated Midair: Juliane Koepcke Falls Two Miles Into the Amazon | E201

The CRUX: True Survival Stories

Bleav + Kaycee McIntosh + Julie Henningsen

Society & Culture, Halloween, Wilderness, True Crime, Nature, National, Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On Christmas Eve 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke fell two miles from a disintegrating airplane into the Peruvian Amazon rainforest—and survived. With a broken collarbone, severe injuries, and wearing only a mini-dress and one sandal, she spent 11 days navigating alone through one of Earth's most unforgiving environments, using lessons her zoologist parents had taught her. She was the sole survivor among 92 people on LANSA Flight 508.

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0:23.1	casenives.com. Hello, survivalists. This is the Crux True Survival Story podcast. I'm Casey McIntosh.
0:37.5	And I'm Julie Henningson. And I'm Julie Henningson.
0:38.8	And we are medical professionals with a passion for wilderness survival.
0:42.6	Join us as we explore real life survival stories and the critical moments that determine their outcomes.
0:48.4	Buckle up.
0:49.2	Adventure awaits.
0:50.2	Let's dive into this week's story.
0:55.9	So, Julie, we hit 200 episodes.
0:59.0	I just want to take a moment to acknowledge that.
1:01.8	200 survival stories.
1:03.8	200 times people almost died and we talked about it.
1:07.8	You know what I did last week?
1:09.3	I went back and listened to episode number three.
1:13.1	Oh, no. Oh, yes. The audio quality alone, it sounds like I recorded it in a wind tunnel. But here's the
1:21.1	thing. The story was incredible. This is the story of Julian Koppke, who survived falling out of an airplane and landed in the
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