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floor 25 whenever you're flying in an
airplane and you're looking out the
window you generally feel pretty safe
air travel after all is statistically
the safest way that you can travel but
what happens during the rare times when
it's not safe and how could you survive
if say the plane exploded up in the air
and you had a fall all the way down to
the ground without a parachute it seems
impossible but surprisingly people have
done it before and none have fallen from
a higher distance than vesna vulovic the
woman who survived a fall from 33,000
feet up in the sky volovich was born in
Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia and
became a flight attendant for j8e
which was Yugoslavia's national airline
less than one year after she had gotten
the job and at the young age of only 22
she was a part of the flight crew on j8e
flight 367 On January 26th 1972 the
plane was flying from Stockholm to
Belgrade with two stopovers along the
way scheduled in Copenhagen and Zekrom
and it was in Copenhagen where the
original crew was cycled out with
vulovic as crew it was a fateful
accident because vulovic wasn't even
supposed to be on the flight but the
company had apparently mistaken her with
another flight attendant also named best
know regardless she and her crew boarded
the flight anyway and the plane took off
from Copenhagen towards that grab the
flight initially went smoothly and
everything was calm for a while but 46
minutes into the flight when the plane
was just above the town of Srpska cummin
itza in Czechoslovakia something unusual
happened a bomb went off in the planes
luggage compartment the plane was
cruising at an altitude of 33,000 330
feet when the explosion took place and
as a result the entire plane broke apart
into pieces there were 28 people on
board the plane
counting all passengers and crew members
the cabin immediately became deep
pressurized and everybody was blown out
to fall down to their deaths
except for vulovic at the height of
33,000 330 feet the height that
everybody had to fall from was
essentially the same as Mount Everest
with Mount Washington in New Hampshire
stacked on top below vich however had a
series of almost miraculous events on
her side that saved her life
first when the explosion happened she
was hit by a food cart that pinned her
down in the back of the plane fuselage
this prevented her from getting blown
out of the cabin like what had happened
to everybody else after falling in
horrific freefall the entire 33,000 feet
pinned inside the fuselage landed at an
angle in a heavily forested mountainside
covered in a thick layer of snow that
helped to insulate the landing further
vulovic suffered from very low blood
pressure
this cost her to pass out and lose
consciousness the moment the bomb went
off in the cabin depressurized this also
prevented her heart from bursting by the
force of the crash impact on the
mountainside below which had lied about
her heart condition during her interview
at j8e out of fear of not getting the
job and had apparently drank a quote
exorbitant amount of coffee to pass her
medical exam a local Czech villager who
lived nearby quickly arrived at the
scene of the crash to search for
survivors and discovered below vich
alive inside of the wreckage she had
been screaming at her turquoise uniform
was covered in blood while volovich was
indeed alive she had suffered a
fractured and hemorrhaged
skull both of her legs were broken her
pelvis was shattered she had several
broken ribs and a three broken vertebrae
but still alive she may have died from
her injuries inside of the wreckage and
we would have never known that she
survived the fall at all were it not for
the local villager who discovered her
and who just happened to have been a
medic during the Second World War he
managed to keep her alive long enough
for emergency services to arrive that
took volovich to the closest hospital
and it was there that they managed to
save her life she suffered a coma for a
that had complete amnesia of everything
that had happened one hour prior to the
crash up to the moment that she woke up
again the last thing that she remembered
were the passengers getting on board the
plane she woke up to her parents who had
to show her a newspaper article about
the crash before she believed what had
actually happened to her the bombing of
JHE flight 367 was likely part of a
terror campaign conducted by Croatian
nationalists against the Yugoslavs the
very same day of the plane bombing a
train traveling from Vienna to Zagreb
was also bombed Croatian nationalists
carried out a total of 128 terror
attacks against us lob civilian and
military targets between 1962 and 1982
however nobody was ever held accountable
for the bombing of j8e flight 367 in two
dates no arrests or suspects have ever
been made in connection with the attack
as for vesna vulovic she continued to
live a long life after she survived the
impossible every year after that was
kind of like a bonus year that she can
enjoy afterwards she regained her
ability to walk only ten months after
the crash and she spent a total of 16
months in recovery her parents had to
sell both of their family cars in order
to pay for her medical bills but still
she was alive since she had no memory of
the fall she never developed a fear of
flying and wanted to continue being a
flight attendant the airline's feared
the publicity of having her on board
another plane though so they moved her
down into a desk job vesna vulovic
became a kind of celebrity in Yugoslavia
afterwards who was celebrated as a hero
across communist Europe and the Soviet
Union she was never able to have
children of her own due to complications
from her injuries and she was fired from
j8e in the 1990s for taking part in
anti-government protests against
slobodan milosevic in what's possibly
the lamest smear campaign ever conducted
in history kro Milosevic tabloids
attacked her story by claiming that her
plane had actually been shot down by a
Czechoslovakian
and that she had actually only fallen
from a slightly lesser altitude
regardless her facts won out and she
continued to live her life until 2016
where she passed away
in her apartment from her heart
complications she was 66 years old and
she died 44 years after she was supposed
to die aboard j8e flight 367 the Reaper
comes for everybody eventually but
sometimes people like vesna vulovic say
no not today and the Reaper had to wait
44 more years before he came knocking
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