On 24 December, 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Köpcke got on a plane with her mother in Lima, Peru, to   (1)   to another city to meet her father.

Over the Amazon jungle, there was a   (2)  . The rain fell heavily and there was a strong wind. And then   (3)   hit the plane at 3,000 metres, and it exploded. Juliane   (4)   quickly through the air in her seat and hit the trees hard. For three hours, she was   (5)   When she woke up, her right arm was  (6)  , and her shoulder hurt badly. She was alone,   (7)   she was alive!

When Juliane was small, her father taught her how to survive in the  (8)  . She found a small river and walked slowly along   (9)  . “If I follow the river,” she thought, “I’ll   (10)   people.” The river also gave her clean water to drink. It was extremely   (11)  , but the river water kept her cool. Sometimes she had to swim in the river   (12)   it was too deep to walk in. There were crocodiles in the water but   (13)   they didn’t attack her! There were   (14)   on some trees but she didn’t eat them—she knew they were too dangerous.

Juliane walked for   (15)   days. At night she stopped to sleep because it was too dark to walk. Ten days after the   (16)  , she found a small hut by the river. There were some woodcutters in the   (17)  . They cleaned her cuts carefully and the next day, they carried her down the river, and a plane took her safely back to the city of Pucallpa.

Juliane was the only person who   (18)   the plane crash. The other 91 people, including her   (19)  , all died.

The film director, Werner Herzog, had a ticket to travel on the plane but  (20)   it. Thirty years later, he made a film called “Wings of Hope” about Juliane and her incredible story.