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Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016 [dubious – discuss]) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet.
Flight 811: 31 Survived falling from approximately 14,000ft, with the fall lasting 8 minutes. Survived with broken bones and a concussion. [63] [64] 1981-09-02 Remberto Aparicio 26 Male P Taxi Aéreo El Venado Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa 21 [65] [66] 1983-04-30 AT2 Melissa Kelly 30 Female P U.S. Navy: Convair C-131 14 [67] 1984-12-23 27 ...
Alan Magee, American soldier who survived falling from his aeroplane in 1943; Nicholas Alkemade, British soldier who survived falling from his aeroplane in 1944; Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant who survived the mid-air breakup of JAT Flight 367 in 1972; Larisa Savitskaya, Soviet woman who was the sole survivor of Aeroflot Flight 811 in ...
As the plane was falling, the pilot made the decision to deploy a parachute system, slowing the plane’s fall enough to make a relatively gentle crash-landing, the Sheriff’s Office added. All ...
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The Chicago Fire Department responded to reports of someone "pinned in machinery" in Terminal 5, used mainly by international airlines, at around 8 a.m., according to ABC News. The woman was found ...
British Royal Air Force rear gunner survived a fall with only some bruising and a twisted knee. Landed in deep snow drift in a pine forest near Berlin. [1] Larisa Savitskaya: 17,130 5,220 1981 Sole survivor of Aeroflot Flight 811 who was in an aircraft fragment after the mid-air collision, which landed in a swampy glade. [7] [8] Bear Grylls ...
A woman was killed by a baggage carousel at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Surveillance footage showed she entered a restricted area at 2:27 a.m. and was found at 7:30 a.m.