Also, parachutists know to avoid landing in trees at all costs. So nope, trees don't help at all.
what does this have anything to do with hacking, startups, or even computers.
I usually defend submissions and discussions like these, but this? This is rather indefensible.
There's relatively little data, though, since commercial airliners don't crash that often.
Sad outcome for the mother. :(
If they could afford to fly search planes overhead I can't see cost being the issue that prevented them from doing the search more efficiently.
Should have eaten the maggots, lots of protein.
Other curious fact: Werner Herzog was supposed to take this flight. He missed it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071845
I was maybe 8 or 9 when it was shown on Japanese TV. Amazed it didn't scare me away from air travel for life.
If by Peruvian Rainforest she means Peruvian Amazon, I fathom how anyone wouldn't think of it as a green hell. Thousands of people have died simply from travelling through it.
What an ordeal, though.
> Before the crash, I had spent a year and a half with my parents on their research station only 30 miles away. I learned a lot about life in the rainforest, that it wasn't too dangerous.
Arguably, the biggest dangers of the Amazon forrest are malaria-carrying mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, spiders and scorpions, and lack of access to drinkable water and edible food. Since she had lived in a research station, she was probably vaccinated and knew how to mitigate the other risks (e.g. there is plenty of edible food, you just need to know how to identify it).
All in all, it seems a better deal than getting stranded in the Andes, the Sahara or the African savannahs.
Would not have guessed that.
http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Stranded_I_ve_Come_from_a_Pl...
I recommend checking out the series "I Shouldn't Be Alive". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shouldnt_Be_Alive
Looking through the episode list, I'm surprised that Juliane's story isn't in there.
