Episode 50: LANSA Flight 508

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Imagine what you could do when you were seventeen. Would you have been able to handle surviving a plane crash in the middle of nowhere? Or would you have been able to get up after the crash and start walking toward where help will hopefully be, even if it meant walking for ten straight days? One teenage girl did just that, and became the sole survivor of a plane crash over the Peruvian jungle.

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1:01.6	Episode 50, Lansa Flight 50, December 24, 1971, 91 deceased, one injured. Today we're going to talk about a badass. She's a 62-year-old
1:17.3	German librarian and scientist with short blonde hair and glasses. See, when I put it like that,
1:23.0	she probably doesn't sound like a badass. But when she was only 17, Julian Diller, born Julian
1:30.0	Kopka, survived a plane crash over Peru. And she kept surviving all alone in the jungle for 10
1:36.9	straight days. Julianne Kupka was born October 10, 1954 in Lima, Peru to Hans Wilhelm and Maria Kopka.
1:47.0	Julian's mom was an eminent ornithologist, and her father was a biologist fascinated with the
1:52.0	wildlife present in the Peruvian rainforest.
1:56.0	Yulian was an only child, but because of her parents' strong interest in their work, one child
2:01.7	was more than enough.
2:03.4	Hans Wilhelm and Maria were passionate about science and very close, working hard on everything
2:08.7	from everyday research to writing for scientific publications.
2:14.1	Yulean grew up in a home where a steady stream of scientists flowed through, stopping on their
2:19.0	way to more remote research locations, or staying to discuss science with the Elder Kopkas.
2:25.9	Yulian's parents both worked at the Javier Prado Museum of Natural History in Lima, Peru, when
2:31.8	she was a child.
2:33.7	In 1968, Hans Wilhelm and Maria Kopka established an ecological station called Panguana
2:39.6	in an isolated section of the Peruvian rainforest.
2:42.8	Panguana, which was named after a native bird, was basically a hut on stilts, with the
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