Talk:LANSA Flight 508

Another Movie
The story of Julia Koepcke was first shown in a spanish movie from 1974. Long before Werner Herzog made his movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071845/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntK4FH6GjBI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:D512:6D80:7025:6349:2CEA:DB3B (talk) 07:20, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * That’s hardly a documentary at all, plenty of creative license used in this movie. Juliane Koepcke herself criticized this movie for its inaccuracy and portraying her as a helpless girl rather than the jungle savvy person that she is. 84.254.102.36 (talk) 18:06, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

More sources
Here: Pleitgen, Frederik. "Survivor still haunted by 1971 air crash." CNN. July 2, 2009. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:25, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Faraday Cage
Could this article please explain how lightning destroyed the aircraft? I thought plane skins acted like the aforementioned physic property blocking out any effects of electrical discharge? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.57.205 (talk) 12:01, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I was wondering the same thing. Can anyone explain this?  Captain Quirk (talk) 22:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm no expert, but was curious enough to learn more. Apparently the Lockheed L-188 Electra was found to have a design flaw regarding the engine mount, as well as durability of the skin materials. This would be consistent with the report of a lightning strike on the wing or one of the prop engines, causing fire and separation of the wings themselves. A surprisingly large proportion of the planes were lost to crashes. For more on the Faraday Cage concept I found a great article at Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-lightni/ While generally the way planes are built causes lightning to harmless pass through the plane, vulnerability arises when there is insufficient skin around the area of the fuel tank, electrical equipment, and as in this case, the engines and wings. Also if there is an incomplete circuit of the aluminum shell from front to back, this can cause problems. Lockheed and other manufacturers seem to have learned their lesson, which may explain why this type of accident is so uncommon -- though it is, apparently, possible. On a different topic, citation number 2 (Plane Crash Accident Board) takes us to a reference to an Indian Airlines crash that same year, obviously not LANSA Flight 508. If nobody has an issue I'm going to remove it. Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 03:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Text swap
The article on Juliane Koepcke actually appears to have slightly less detailed information about her survival, while this article has more. Should they be switched? Tigerdude9 (talk) 17:03, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Survivors
Just out of curiosity... The article lists the name of the "sole survivor" of the flight, but then says that there were other survivors who lived through the initial crash but died before help arrived. Isn't that something of a contradiction? At what point does someone become a "survivor"? 141.217.154.6 (talk) 20:41, 26 January 2022 (UTC)