Pāhonoa te oro

She survived one of the deadliest plane crashes… but lost everything. In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was just 17 when her plane was flying over the Amazon rainforest during a storm. Without warning, lightning struck the aircraft. The plane broke apart in mid-air. Passengers were thrown into the sky. Thousands of meters above the ground. Juliane was still strapped to her seat as she fell. Spinning. Falling through clouds… and trees… into the jungle below. Somehow… she survived the impact. Whe