THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY A TRUE STORY OF SURVIVAL [OPENING — DARK, QUIET MUSIC] Imagine falling from an airplane. Not jumping. Not parachuting. Falling. Thousands of metres above the ground. No parachute. No protection. Nothing beneath you except clouds and an enormous rainforest stretching as far as you can see. Now imagine opening your eyes… …and realizing you're alive. But there's nobody around you. No road. No house. No people. No food. No way to call for help. And you're injured. You're seventeen years old. And you're standing alone in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. This sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie. But it happened. On Christmas Eve, 1971, a seventeen-year-old German girl named Juliane Koepcke boarded an airplane in Peru with her mother. Within minutes, she would be falling through the sky. Her mother would be dead. Ninety-one other people would die. And somehow… Juliane would survive. But surviving the fall was only the beginning. What happened during the next eleven days may be even more unbelievable. This is the true story of Juliane Koepcke… the girl who fell from the sky. --- CHAPTER ONE — CHRISTMAS EVE [SFX: AIRPLANE ENGINE / QUIET CHRISTMAS MUSIC] It was December 24th, 1971. Christmas Eve. Juliane Koepcke was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Maria, were travelling from Lima to the Peruvian city of Pucallpa. They were planning to spend Christmas with Juliane's father, Hans-Wilhelm. And there was something unusual about Juliane's Ver mais