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. Juliane Koepcke fell more than 3kms after the plane in which she was traveling broke up in midair. Yet this unassuming middle aged woman has one of the most exciting and unbelievable stories of tragedy and survival to tell. It was Christmas Eve, 1971, when Koepcke, then aged 17, and her mother boarded a Lockheed Electra turboprop for a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest. Her parents, both famous zoologists, ran a research station in the jungle studying wildlife.
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German girl, 17, was only survivor of 1971 plane crash in Peruvian rainforest
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Juliane Koepcke fell more than 3km into jungle attached to a row of seats
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Koepcke suffered minor injuries, survived for 10 days alone in rainforest
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Koepcke haunted by ordeal; especially when confronted with other air disasters
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