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MUNICH, Germany (CNN) -- Juliane Koepcke is not someone you'd expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in Munich, Germany, where she's a librarian.
"Maybe it was the fact that I was still attached to a whole row of seats," she says. "It was rotating much like the helicopter and that might have slowed the fall. Also, the place I landed had very thick foliage and that might have lessened the impact."
She was only 17 years old when this happened. What an incredible story!
From what I remember, she's one of three female sole servivors of airline crashes; there was a Hungarian(?) flight attendant some years ago that was the sole survivor of a crash (Sorry, don't remember the airline or aircraft type...) She was in the aircraft's lavatory when the plane crashed. Then there was just the recent Yemeni Airways crash with the 12-year old girl. What stories!
GREAT find, South Range Family! Yep, the first anecdote involving the flight attendant was the one I was referring to.
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