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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 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 ...
A woman died Thursday morning at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after getting caught in a baggage carousel, officials told ABC News. The woman, who has not yet been publicly identified, was ...
The cause of death for the 57-year-old woman whose body was found in a baggage area at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport last week has reportedly been revealed.. Virginia Christine Vinton ...
She survived the 5,220 (17,130 ft) meter fall, and was rescued 3 days after the incident. Juliane Koepcke. On 24 December 1971, as LANSA Flight 508 went down in bad weather, the 17 year old survived a 3,048 meter (10,000 ft) fall, and spent eleven days alone navigating through the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued. Bahia Bakari.
Koepcke found herself falling, still strapped to her row of seats, 3,000 m (10,000 ft) into the Amazon rainforest. Koepcke survived the fall but suffered injuries such as a broken collarbone, a deep cut on her right arm, an eye injury and concussion. She then spent 11 days in the rainforest, most of which were spent making her way through water ...
Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner's close ...
Clark was the first African–American woman to serve as a television correspondent for CBS News. [3] As a correspondent at WBBM-TV, Clark covered the 1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Clark died in the December 1972 crash of United Airlines Flight 553 at Chicago's Midway Airport, while investigating the Watergate scandal. Her death ...