I read her story about ten years ago, it's amazing that she survived the fall and even more amazing that she effected self rescue, the account that I read was from her own words in a interview a few months after her ordeal, as this accounting states, she landed in a thick canopy of jungle trees which broke her free fall, she got the gash on her leg and hurt her eye when going through the trees on her fall to the ground, and broke her collar bone on impact, she spent the night still strapped in her seat, it was so dark she had no way of seeing her surroundings or know how badly she was injured and was afraid to move.
When daylight arrived she could only see light, one eye was swollen shut and the other eye had been scratched by brush in the fall, she managed to free herself from the planes seat and she heard the sound of running water, still not able to see anything clearly she crawled toward the sound of the water, when she reached the water she bathed her eyes and washed the wound on her leg, she then used a piece of clothing to make a bandage, it had stopped bleeding but she knew she needed to keep it and the cut on her arm clean.
One if not the main reason she survived the almost two weeks alone and injured in the jungle was that her parents often worked and lived with the indigenous natives in their primitive villages in remote parts of the world, both her parents were practiced in primitive living skills and passed those skills on to their daughter from a very young age.
for almost a week all she live on was stream water and a small bag of candy that she had in her pocket for the flight, in the recounting that I read it didn't get into detail about how she foraged or how she sheltered, all she had with her for clothing was the light sun dress that she was wearing when the plane went down and a light windbreaker that she had the candy in the pocket of.
