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Vesna Vulović (Serbian: Весна Вуловић) (born 3 January 1950) holds the Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (6.31 miles, or 33,000 feet).
The fall occurred on January 26, 1972, over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Croatian Ustaša terrorists had placed a bomb on board JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, on which Vulović was a flight attendant. The explosion tore the DC-9-32 to pieces, but she survived. Vulović says that she was found in the middle section of the plane[1].
The 22-year old was not scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another stewardess named Vesna.
Vulović was the only survivor on the flight. She continued working for JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae, one of which was crushed and left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs only after surgery.
Vulović was awarded the Guinness Record title by Paul McCartney at a ceremony.
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Juliane Diller Köpcke of Lima, Peru was the sole survivor of 92 passengers in the December 24, 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 (a LANSA Lockheed Electra OB-R-941 commercial airliner) in the Peruvian rainforest. She and her mother, famed ornithologist Maria Köpcke, were travelling to meet with her father, biologist Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke.[1]
Juliane Koepcke was a high school senior studying in Lima, intending to become a Zoologist, like her father. Her mother was travelling with Juliane from Lima to meet the father who was working in Pucallpa.
The airplane was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and exploded in mid air, disintegrating two miles up. Köpcke, who was 17 years old at the time, fell to Earth still strapped into her seat. She survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, a gash to her right arm, and the loss of sight in one eye. |
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if you jumped out of a commercial airliner you would be sucked into the engine and shreadded, compressed, incinerated, compressed again (thats the end you your journey through a jet engine) after that you would live among the crystal kerosene vapors in many pieces...any other plane you would make it to your terminal velocity (about 120 mph) then killed immeadately when you contaced the ground and essentally converted into a sack of jelly with a bag of skin around it |
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