Surviving a Fall From 21,000 Feet

Black Box Down

Society & Culture, Aviation, True Crime, Leisure, Documentary

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A woman falls out of the sky from 21,000 feet, still strapped to her seat. LANSA Flight 508 was struck by lightning and breaks apart over the Amazon rainforest. What happened to the passengers on this flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod Sponsored by The Jordan Harbinger Show (jordanharbinger.com/subscribe) and ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/blackboxdown) BUY OUR SHIRT - U.S. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/black-box-down-t-shirt U.K. STORE: https://store.roosterteeth.co.uk/products/black-box-down-t-shirt Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:04.6	Christmas Eve 1971.
0:09.9	Lance of Flight 508 leaves Lima, Peru for domestic trip to Iquitos, Peru, one of the last flights
0:16.2	before Christmas.
0:17.8	On board the Lockheed L-188A ElectroTrobo Prop Plane are six crew members and 86 passengers.
0:25.3	About 40 minutes into the flight, there's a flash of light on the right wing followed by an explosion.
0:30.8	The plane knows dives and begins to fall apart.
0:33.9	A young woman is sucked out of a hole and finds herself free falling 21,000 feet to the ground
0:39.8	below, still strapped into her seat.
0:42.9	Somehow she survives.
0:44.5	But when she awakens, she's in the middle of the Amazon jungle, miles from civilization
0:50.0	completely alone.
0:51.6	How did she survive this fall?
0:53.4	Did she make it out of the jungle safely?
0:55.3	And what happened to the plane and the rest of the passengers?
0:58.5	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
1:03.8	Hello and welcome to Black Box Down.
1:06.2	I'm Chris and with me is...
1:08.7	Gus?
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.7	I was waiting for you to take it.
1:11.7	Okay, I was waiting for you.
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