When I Fell From the Sky

✍ Scribed by Juliane Diller (koepcke); Ross Benjamin

• Book ID: 107047684
• Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLC
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

World survivor who fell from two miles above the Earth while strapped to her airplane seat and conscious for initial descent.

The teenage survivor was presumed dead and survived for 11 days in the rain forest following a lightning strike that incinerated her plane Christmas Eve.

Frequently sought by the media since her 1971 miracle survival, this book is her first full recount of her experience and the years that followed.

International Bestseller since the Germany release in April 2011. Top 10 Spiegel Bestseller List.

Garson & Wright Public Relations launching national publicity campaign including television and print media.

Product Description

She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth.Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor. For eleven days she crawls and walks alone through the jungle, fighting for her survival again with hunger and despair her only companions as maggots eat their way into her wounds. Juliane ultimately survives and goes on to live an inspiring life as a scientist continually drawn back to the terrain that threatened to take her. On the 40th anniversary she shares not only the private moments of her survival and rescue but her life in the wake and