As the lone survivor of Flight 508, a teenage girl braved 11 days in the Amazonian rainforest in 1971 before being found. Her survival story echoed last week, when four children were found alive 40 days after their plane went down in the Amazon.
their survival an example of a “knowledge and relationship with the natural environment of life,” which it said is “learned from the mother’s womb and practiced from a very early age.”Koepcke, too, grew up with a profound appreciation of nature. Her father, Hans-Wilhelm, was a zoologist, her mother, Maria, an ornithologist; the two met as students at Germany’s University of Kiel.
For several years, the family lived full-time at a research station the Koepckes founded deep in the Amazon. At Panguana, named after a native bird, the then-teenage girl came to love the jungle, learning the plants and animals that inhabited it and the rules that governed it. Or, as she put it in her book, she “went to the school of the jungle.”Panguana was where Koepcke was headed when she boarded the doomed flight, settling into the second-to-last row.
At one point, she said in the interview with Vice, she stumbled on a horrifying sight. Rounding a crook of the stream, she spotted a row of seats from the plane with bodies strapped in, their feet pointing up. For the first few moments, she said, “it was like I was paralyzed.” Koepcke mourned her mother amid the sudden spotlight over her survival. She went on to study biology in Kiel, later obtaining her doctorate and returning to Panguana to write her doctoral dissertation on bats. After her father died in 2000, she becameof the research station, which she told the New York Times is her “sanctuary,” just as it was for her parents.
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