On Christmas Eve in 1971, a bolt of lightning struck LANSA Flight 508, while it was flying over the Amazonian jungle.
Juliane Koepcke, who was just 17 years old at the time, was sucked out of the plane. Still strapped to her seat, she plummeted over three kilometres to the ground.
Miraculously, she survived the fall. Koepcke was the sole survivor that day, with the other 91 passengers and crew on board perishing in the crash.
Koepcke described her experience of “free-falling” to Vice in 2012.
"I was in a tailspin," she said. "I saw the forest beneath me—like 'green cauliflower, like broccoli,' is how I described it later on. Then I lost consciousness and regained it only way later, the next day."
But Koepcke's ordeal didn't end there. When she woke up on the jungle floor almost 24 hours later, she realised that although she'd survived the crash - her mother, who she was travelling with, probably wasn't so lucky.