Short answers, pulled from the story.
Juliane Koepcke was born in Lima, Peru, on the 10th of October 1954, to German zoologist parents. She fell three thousand meters into the Amazon rainforest after her LANSA airliner was struck by lightning on the 24th of December 1971, survived, and later became a researcher studying bat colonies in Peru.
Juliane Koepcke's LANSA Flight 508 was struck by lightning above the Peruvian Amazon and broke apart in midair. She fell three thousand meters to the ground while still strapped into her row of airplane seats and survived the impact.
Juliane Koepcke's plane crashed on the 24th of December 1971, one day after she had graduated from school in Lima. She then spent eleven days alone in the rainforest, reaching a lumberjack camp on the ninth day and being found by the lumberjacks a few hours later.
Juliane Koepcke survived the fall because she remained strapped into a row of three airplane seats, which experts believe acted like a parachute or helicopter blade to slow her descent. A thunderstorm updraft and the thick foliage at her landing site may have also softened the impact.
Juliane Koepcke's parents, zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, moved into the Amazon rainforest when she was fourteen to found a research station called Panguana. Juliane lived there with them and learned survival skills that stayed with her for years.
After recovering, Juliane Koepcke helped search parties locate the crash site, then returned to Germany, studied biology at the University of Kiel, and earned a doctorate from LMU Munich. She later returned to Peru to research bats, became director of the Panguana research station in 2000, and published an autobiography in 2011 that won the Corine Literature Prize.