LATEST UPDATE: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible
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Vesna Vulovic: The Stewardess Who Survived a terrorist
attack at 33,000 feet.
On January 26, 1972, a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 departed
from Copenhagen for Belgrade (via Zagreb) with 28
passengers and crew. At an altitude of 33,000 feet, a
bomb in the cargo section, planted by the Ustashe
Croatian separatist group, exploded. The plane
disintegrated and crashed on the mountains.
In what must be one of the greatest survival stories of
all time, stewardess Vesna Vulovic survived the 33,000
foot descent sitting on the tail of the plane.
22 year old Vulovic wasn't even supposed to be on that
plane. As she later stated in an interview, it was another
Vesna who was supposed to be on that flight, but she
was happy with the mix-up as it allowed her to make
her first trip to Denmark. She ended up with a fractured
skull, two broken legs, and three broken vertebrae - one
of which was crushed and left her paralyzed from the
waist down.
Vulovic spent several months in and out of hospitals;
operations allowed her to walk again. She became a
celebrity when the Guinness Book of World Records
invited her to a ceremony in London with Paul
McCartney. She is listed for surviving the longest fall
without a parachute. Vulovic is now a national hero in
Serbia and spent the late 90s marching in Belgrade
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