Crash Landing

A mine collapse left 33 miners trapped a half-mile below the surface in an underground shelter. It would take an international team of rescuers 69 days to save them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Doctors said Fauja Singh may never walk. So they’d be pretty surprised to learn that he became the first 100-year-old to run a marathon, and the oldest known person to run a marathon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Few people have been more qualified to survive a plane crash alone in the Amazon for almost two weeks than Juliane Koepcke. Let’s hear her story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three years she had lived, on and off, with her mother, Maria, and her father, Han ...

In 1971, a 17 year old girl named Juliane Koepcke excitedly boarded a plane with her mom to return home for Christmas. Little did they know that this flight would soon go very wrong… My name is Andy Jiang and I do vigorous, detailed dives into some of the most fascinating, bizarr ...  Show more

We discuss who would land a crashing plane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices