The revocation was too late for the ninety-one people who died on December 24, 1971. The airline’s record had been visible for years before the Christmas Eve crash. The specific mechanisms by which airlines with poor safety records continue to operate despite that record — regulatory capture, economic pressure, the difficulty of establishing blame before a catastrophic failure rather than after — are not unique to Peru in 1971. They are a pattern in aviation safety history that the LANSA case illustrates clearly.
## The Scientists’ Daughter Becomes a Scientist
After her recovery and the reunion with her father and the search operations she participated in, Juliane left Peru for Germany in 1972. She eventually enrolled at the University of Kiel to study biology. She graduated in 1980.
The choice of biology was not a dramatic symbolic decision; it was a continuation of the life she had been raised into. She was the daughter of two biologists who had spent their careers studying the organisms of the Peruvian Amazon. The discipline was what she knew. The research station at Panguana was her childhood home. Returning to it — not immediately, but eventually, and for the rest of her life — was the shape her life was always going to take.
After graduating from Kiel, she enrolled at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for doctoral work. Her 1987 thesis studied a bat community in Peruvian rainforest — specifically at Panguana, the station her parents had founded, to which she had returned in 1981 to begin her fieldwork. She had identified 52 species of bats at the station.