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People who have survived free fall or other falls of great height without using a parachute or similar device. Pages in category "Fall survivors" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Upon impact, the barrel was stuck behind a curtain of water and could not be recovered for 18 hours. Stathakis had an air supply of up to eight hours – although he had survived the initial fall, he died of suffocation. [31] Stathakis took the plunge with his pet turtle, which was said to be around 150 years old. The turtle survived the ordeal ...
Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (10 December 1922 – 22 June 1987) was a British tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute after abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany.
Name Image Distance of fall Date Notes and References Feet Meters Vesna Vulović: 33,330 10,160 [1] 1972 Flight attendant from Serbia who was the sole survivor of an airplane bombing mid-air. Likely landed in part of fuselage in heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside. Suffered many bone fractures. [1] [2] [3] Luke Aikins: 25,000 [4] 7,620 ...
Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. [1] [2] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. [2]Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English language skills.
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured. [3] [4]
The editor in chief of Nameberry shares fall-inspired names for babies. She says colors, fall traditions and astrological signs are inspiration.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.