Consequences Of Flight 508
TOP 10 INCREDIBLE STORIES OF SURVIVAL
While managing a decent job, to feed our families, and ourselves is the kind of survival, we face, there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors.
1. LANSA flight 508
On 24th December 1971, the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even on hitting turbulent weather, the flight operators decided to continue flying killing 90 out of 91 people on board, including 6 members of the flight crew. The lone survivor was Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year-old German Peruvian. The young girl was strapped on to her seat and hit a canopy in the Peruvian rainforest. She miraculously survived a thousand feet fall with just a …show more content…
Gregoire Philonenko lay still with his 19-year-old son as the assailants came kicking every collapsed body on the ground. Philonenko had a prosthetic leg, hence on kicking he did not resist or flinch, aiding them to believe he was dead.
4. Shark attack
In the October of 1982 Deborah Kiley set sail on a yacht from Maine to Florida with three men and a woman. The yacht sank in a fierce storm, and the survivors were left dehydrated and hungry. Soon the thirst-driven men aboard got to ingesting the salt water. Delusional, they pushed the dinghy into shark-filled waters. One of them swam away into oblivion, never heard of or seen again and the other was eaten by sharks directly beneath Kiley’s dinghy. The woman died of injuries to her leg when the yacht sank. Kiley covered herself with seaweed to keep out the cold until she and the only other crew member were rescued.
5. Sperm whale sinks the
While managing a decent job, to feed our families, and ourselves is the kind of survival, we face, there are tonnes of people who have managed to survive in drastic conditions where all hope seems lost. Here is an account of such incidents braved by many survivors.
1. LANSA flight 508
On 24th December 1971, the ill-fated LANSA flight 508 hit the ground after being caught in a thunderstorm while travelling from Lima to Iquitos with a stopover in Pucallpa. Even on hitting turbulent weather, the flight operators decided to continue flying killing 90 out of 91 people on board, including 6 members of the flight crew. The lone survivor was Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year-old German Peruvian. The young girl was strapped on to her seat and hit a canopy in the Peruvian rainforest. She miraculously survived a thousand feet fall with just a …show more content…
Gregoire Philonenko lay still with his 19-year-old son as the assailants came kicking every collapsed body on the ground. Philonenko had a prosthetic leg, hence on kicking he did not resist or flinch, aiding them to believe he was dead.
4. Shark attack
In the October of 1982 Deborah Kiley set sail on a yacht from Maine to Florida with three men and a woman. The yacht sank in a fierce storm, and the survivors were left dehydrated and hungry. Soon the thirst-driven men aboard got to ingesting the salt water. Delusional, they pushed the dinghy into shark-filled waters. One of them swam away into oblivion, never heard of or seen again and the other was eaten by sharks directly beneath Kiley’s dinghy. The woman died of injuries to her leg when the yacht sank. Kiley covered herself with seaweed to keep out the cold until she and the only other crew member were rescued.
5. Sperm whale sinks the