When Juliane Koepcke boarded flight 508 with her mother on Christmas Eve, 1971, she knew the airline they were flying had a horrible reputation. She never imagined that she'd be the only person of the 92 on board to survive the flight.
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Jun 18
181. Mount Everest Horror: The Khumbu Icefall Avalanche
On April 18th, 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice broke free above the Khumbu Icefall and killed sixteen Sherpa guides. It was the deadliest single disaster in Mount Everest's history. What followed wasn't just a rescue. It was a reckoning: a fight over $400 funeral payments, a hi ... Show More
36m 50s
Jun 11
180. Two Cold Cases Police Thought Would Never Be Solved (And How They Were Cracked This Year)
Go to https://kachava.com and use code HSP for 15% off your first order. They call it the golden age of DNA testing, and this year, two cases that police thought would never be solved finally cracked open. But the answers were nothing anyone expected. August 1990, Houston. A whit ... Show More
46m 42s
Apr 2023
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
In 1971, a 17 year old girl named Juliane Koepcke excitedly boarded a plane with her mom to return home for Christmas. Little did they know that this flight would soon go very wrong…
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20 m
Jan 2023
The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’
<p>On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, on and off, with her mother, Maria, and her father, Han ... Show More
24m 4s
Oct 2022
Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman
<p>Our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. Of the 45 people on board, 16 ultimately lived. Their survival made them heroes, until the way they survived shocked the w ... Show More
1h 20m
Jun 2024
Juliane Koepcke : un miracle de Noël
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4m 34s
Jul 2023
EP. 119 FLORIDA - The Killer Captain & The Sea Orphan: Family Annihilation On The High Seas
In the year 1961, a tragic boat accident claimed the lives of 6 people and left only survivor... at least, that's what the Captain who escaped the accident thought. As it turned out, only a few days after Captain Julian Harvey would be discovered floating at sea and would explain ... Show More
38m 34s
Feb 2022
Oh, It Gets Worse: Air Rage on United Flight 976
<p>There are flights from hell and then there’s United Flight 976 from Buenos Aires to New York City. With all the drinking, outbursts, violence, and other unmentionable deeds in this story, flying first class never looked so horrible.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices ... Show More
44m 12s
Feb 2024
Plane Crash in the High Sierras
In 1976, Lauren Elder takes up the last-minute offer of a sightseeing flight with some friends. The plan is to range out over the desert, stop for a picnic, then head home before it’s dark. As she boards the light aircraft, Lauren never imagines she’ll end up stranded on a mounta ... Show More
48m 38s