When I Fell from the Sky

The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

By: Juliane Diller Koepcke, Ross Benjamin - translator

Narrated by: Judith Georgi

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 11 days she crawled and walked alone through the jungle, fighting for her survival again with hunger and despair her only companions as maggots ate 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 of the dramatic true story.

©2011 Juliane Koepcke; Ross Benjamin (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

Enjoyable true story

I enjoyed learning more about the Peruvian rainforest. This was a nice and easy leisure read.

Highly recommend!

I listened to a few different podcasts on her story and it was fascinating to hear so I decided to listen to the book and it did not disappoint!

Concerns about the recording

It was a fascinating story but there were parts half way through where the recording stopped then restarted .

Great Stiry

This is a fabulous book; however there are spots where the narration is garbled.

That the writer has contributed so much to the Amazon.. it could have been otherwise

I needed this for book for strength and it made today’s life bearable and seem beautiful!!