Airplane crash
Juliane Köpcke was a German high
school senior studying in Lima, intending to become a zoologist, like her parents. She and her
mother, famed ornithologist Maria Köpcke, were traveling to meet with her father, biologist Hans-Wilhelm
Köpcke, who was
working in Pucallpa.
The airplane
was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and exploded in mid-air, disintegrating 3.2 km
up. Köpcke, who was 17 years old at the time, fell to earth still strapped into
her seat. She survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, a gash to her right arm and her
right eye swollen shut.
Her first
priority was to find her mother, who had been seated next to her on the plane
but her search was unsuccessful. She later found out her mother had died in the
crash.

Subsequent events
Her experience is the subject
of two films, the first being the 1974 Giuseppe Maria Scotese film Miracoli
accadono ancora, I (Miracles Still
Happen), and the most recent being the 2000 Werner Herzog film Wings of Hope. Herzog was inspired to make the film as he
narrowly avoided taking the very same flight while he was location
scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God. His reservation was canceled due
to a last minute change in itinerary.
Köpcke returned to Germany, where
she fully recovered from her injuries and continued her studies, eventually
earning a PhD degree in zoology, like her parents, in 1987. Now known as Dr. Juliane Diller, she
specializes in mammalogy, studying bats in Munich, Germany, and working at the Munich Zoological Center, where
she is a librarian. Juliane Koepcke's memoir Als ich vom Himmel fiel [When I Fell From the Sky] was published on
March 10, 2011 by the German publisher Piper Malik.
TEXT COMPREHENSION
01- Juliane Diller lives in______________.
a) Munich
b) Hamburg
c) Lima
d) Pucallpa
e) Cusco
02- Juliane's _________helped her
survive immediately after the fall.
a) friends
b) knowledge
c) seat
d) mom
e) dad
03- On the airplane, there were
___________
passengers.
a) ninety one
b) ninety two
c) ninety three
d) ninety four
e) ninety five
04- The airplane crash happened in the
________________century.
a) seventeenth
b) eighteenth
c) nineteenth
d) twentieth
e) twenty first
05- Check the correct alternative
according to the text:
a) Aguirre, Wrath of God is a film
about the flight 508
b) The air crash happened 39 years ago
c) Juliane was rescued after seven days
d) Juliane's dad was a victim of flight
508 too
e) The air crash happened on Christmas Eve