She has said, in accounts of this moment, that when she saw them she was afraid of a different kind of danger — that she was a young woman alone and that the situation contained the possibility of harm. She was reassured by their behavior. They were, by her account, not threatening; they were shocked by her presence and by what she told them and by the state she was in.
They treated her wounds as best they could with the materials available. They gave her food. They took her by canoe — an eleven-hour journey — to a more populated area, from which she was airlifted to a hospital in Pucallpa.
Eleven hours by canoe gives some measure of the distance she had walked in ten days. She had covered significant ground under conditions that made significant ground very difficult to cover.
## The Sole Eventual Survivor
The language matters and requires specific attention: Juliane Koepcke is the sole eventual survivor of LANSA Flight 508. She is not described here as the only person who survived the initial crash, because she was not the only person who survived the initial crash.
The Wikipedia record and the broader accident investigation record are consistent on this point: as many as fourteen other passengers survived the breakup and the fall and the initial impact. They were alive in the forest, injured and unable to move, in the debris field of the aircraft.
They died while awaiting rescue. The search did not reach them in time. The forest did not yield them passage to help. Their injuries, in most cases, were too severe to allow them to walk.