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Juliane Koepcke, age 17, was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground strapped to her seat and survived. However, she had to endure a 10-day walk through the Amazon Jungle before being rescued by a logging team. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971
whiterainbodywash
That young girl grew up to be Aubrey Plaza
GINO11111
Who the fuck took that picture??? Or is it movie footage.
mikoroshi
Her mother survived as well
AntD
https://media.giphy.com/media/jX0F5CMG2qK52/giphy.gif
aaronthe7
wow!
izTrippn
Does this mean Aubrey Plaza is actually immortal?
Amandapandapuddingpie
Does anyone else think she looks like Aubrey Plaza?
selfring
She looks pretty good after all that....
Insomnia297
Planes can have structural damage from lightning?
dghammer
Is that a actual pic of her journey? Ha
Fizzledrizzle69
@ShazulDapignus
ShazulDapignus
Triforce??
Fizzledrizzle69
I was thinking the same thing!
NotTheCommentYouAreLookingFor
and then changed her name to Audrey Plaza
Darksparkler
Should've gotten Amazon prime. Woulda only been a 2 day walk
Irishitup
Her: worst flight EVERRR!
ThanosTaint
Did no one else think this looked like Annette Schwarz?
Hammertulski
Please remain strapped in your seat and assume the crash position so that in the event you leave the aircraft, you may scream at own ass.
charlie22312
underrated comment of the day
Hammertulski
No idea what it is about that caption but it's the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
MrNoodlemansbrother
I remember a TV movie about this in the early 70's. There was one particularly disgusting scene I still cringe over.
holmes00
Do tell!
scatmanCrothers
OMG IIRC she takes a part off her watch and starts digging in the wound. I still have mild PTSD from seeing that as a kid.
yelwing
THE MAGGAT SCENE ! I'm with you on that brother
MrNoodlemansbrother
Exactly!
peachesforme
omg so there was a subway commercial talking about their new light mayo that came on while watching this on tv. my mom and i still can't 1/
peachesforme
eat mayo from subway from that connection. it was....too fitting 2/
BobKatt
I remember watching it in grade school. One of the kids in class passed out. I think schools in the 70s tried to toughen kids up.
OdeToBouncer
Shiiiii... we went through "Blood On The Highways, by the Ohio State Police. Straight up faces of death. Had kids vomiting.
ComoSeIguana
Haha, everyone in my class were more curious than revolted. I think even one kid even shouted "YEAH!"
thatdudethatslonely
Werner Herzog did a documentary about her " Wings of Hope ". She returns to the crash and then retraces where she went and how she lived
touchthecowdoitnow
Why she look like aubrey plaza tho?
Nineteenletterslong
she really does. 2 other people have commented on this.
NoratheSloth
She looks like the American Horror Story: Asylum actress.
potatochap
April Ludgate is that you???
HankMardukiss
WineDrunkGreek
If Aubrey Plaza and Christina Ricci had a baby...
Tilthend
She took her life from a movie. Greedy.
HarryHotdogs
http://www.rd.com/true-stories/survival/survival-stories-the-girl-who-fell-from-the-sky/
Digit123456789
Plane crash ? Lone survivor ? 10 days in the jungle eating only snakes caught with bare hands ? Come on...where's the movie about that ?
nicmccool
Miracles Still Happen (1974) -- https://youtu.be/9mS00tGgIIU
dontyoudarereadthisusername
You da real MVP
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wikidefsandpuns
Wings of Hope, 2000- Werner Herzog
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GRiMGRiZ
thanks
shalnon
Better quality: https://youtu.be/pH2ACMPrlC4
TheJawas
Noice
Tacotuesdayeveryday
Doot
Popsicke
Okkk
willtherealTitsMcGeepleasestandup
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ChicksDigTrucks
IAmJacksRagingBileDuct
This deserves to be higher.
blarghl
what movie is that from ?
ChicksDigTrucks
Unbreakable with Samuel L Jackson and Bruce Willis.
blarghl
thank ye kindly
iamaballofsunshine
Aubrey Plaza?
BioshockDaddy
Apparently her and Keanu Reeves are immortal.
skribs
Are they related to Patrick Stewart?
edru19018
That dress is pretty clean for 10 days in the jungle.
LazerHawkAttack
Maybe TOO clean?!
nickooze
I concur doctor
ticktockbent
she stopped at the next village over to freshen up before they photographed her
Sephority
And made her get back in the water
ticktockbent
"It will be a better shot if you get in the water and look half dead"
WeylandYutaniCorp
Well, with all that luggage scattered throughout the jungle, she was never at want for clean clothes.
Pleasureswell
She said she came across some passengers still strapped to their seats and buried headfirst into the jungle floor. Just their feet stuck out
Pleasureswell
She tells the story in this documentary. Amazing strength,determination https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elxHQplolrI
VikingHobbit
at what point during a 2 mile drop do you stop screaming?
OperaNerd
When you hit the ground
onefaller
2 miles = 10,560 feet. plenty of O2, so no hypoxia. At terminal velocity, it's about 6 sec / 1k feet. you can scream for a minute, I'd say.
Qualtagh
Whenever you pass out
nrvagntsoleatr360
When you need to breathe again.
oddballz
At about treefiddy
tehPhreakmang
When you have to get another lung full of air to scream again
CaptainObviouslikesthemthicc
When you realize you cant detect any curvature of the earth.
tinuspr4
If it happened today, you don't scream, you take a selfie
FwdSlashRoot
"Got sucked out of a plane! #Falling #MyLastPost #Peaceout"
SickOfThisCessPool
Depends whether you lose consciousness on impact. If not, about 20 minutes after landing.
ArniePyeInTheSky
Probably passed out almost immediately, which is probably what helped save her. Just like drunk drivers.
MmmCookiePoops
I think the sound would be more of a "hrrrrrnnngggaaahhhh"
howToLoseTheGame
AÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
absolutezero182
Well according to the internet a 2 mile fall would take about 59.7 seconds, so you would probably stop screaming at 60 seconds
notmyrealnamemoveplease
More than likely, she lost consciousness. That probably helped her to survive the fall
Ratman72
That and a lucky landing in the trees. Her mother had been next to her but her belt broke. Other passengers were strapped in but dead.
brknsoul
Kind of like how drunks can walk away from a horrific crash. Not tensing up helps a bit.
bedsound
That's why I insist to fly hammered. Safety first.
Ulthirm
However she was contained in her seat, likely meaning not tensing did little help. The seat maybe had some form of cushioning factor?
imagoa
Drunk driving saves lives.
itsjustafatkid
killerducky29
Uhhh. No. You are wrong.
acliberti
You're missing the joke
JustaLilOctopus
Yes
playingdead2022
how long does it take to fall two miles?
FwdSlashRoot
If she weighed 115 pounds (avg weight for 17 year old girl) and fell exactly 2 miles, 1 minute 12 seconds
ijumpoutofplanesforfun
From 10k MSL, probably about a 50-70 seconds. Hard to know terminal velocity in a seat
KrondorMocker
2.1
thepervyknight
Ha!
OstentatiousMusings
http://imgur.com/jaXzomN
graehall
Ah, that got a proper laugh out of me. +1
HellaPictureSeeing
That's deep
MyNameIsPer
Literally. Deep.
MisterWho
0.1 mile deep
Irishitup
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ThomasTheSexyVampire
Can someone explain the answer to the square route of negative shit to me. I don't get it.
WeHaveTheGifs
A square is a number X itself so a square root is the 2 numbers that X to said number.Nothing multiplied by itself can get a negative number
WeHaveTheGifs
Therefore a negative square root does not exist
Baccano2015
Question is when do you start. The air pressure would make it difficult to say the least
postmodest
2 miles up is "The Slopes at Breckenridge, CO", not "The Death Zone at Everest".
stusauce
I don't know how you'd think to say "the least" while falling. I'd probably just scream.
Snooj
Not with that air pressure.
MiniDitka5
The least... Successful flight I've ever been on...
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ijumpoutofplanesforfun
Plenty of tandem skydivers scream on exit at 13.5k ft MSL
Enderskild
Humans are functional up to about 10-14k ft without supplemental oxygen, indefinitely.
WeylandYutaniCorp
I thought they meant the varying ram air pressure from tumbling while strapped to the seat.
neil137
10k is about 2 miles *nod*
kidkronic113
Indefinitely feels like a stretch
neil137
no, lots of towns are that high
flikrdoodles
At some point you gotta eat, though
FlorbFnarb
At two miles up? Not so much. And she wouldn't be spending much time at two miles up.
ClassicRand0
Well we all know she goes down, right guys?
humourasdryasyourgf
she hasn't had to come up for air since December of 1971
FlorbFnarb
She's 63 now, so you go right on ahead and give her a call. ;)