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LANSA Flight 508

9Fatalities
1Survivors
92On board

Accident details

What happened

A Lockheed L-188 Electra en route from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru, breaks apart in mid-air during a thunderstorm and crashes in the Amazon Rainforest; of the 92 on board, the sole survivor is a German teenager who falls 2 miles (3.2 km) strapped to her seat, and then walks for 10 days through the rainforest before being rescued by local lumbermen.

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