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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.
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 ...
Flight 811: 31 Survived falling from approximately 14,000ft, with the fall lasting 8 minutes. Survived with broken bones and a concussion. [66] [67] 1981-09-02 Remberto Aparicio 26 Male P Taxi Aéreo El Venado Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa 21 [68] [69] 1983-04-30 AT2 Melissa Kelly 30 Female P U.S. Navy: Convair C-131 14 [70] 1984-12-23 27 ...
A flight attendant has reportedly been injured after falling from a plane at an airport in England. On Monday, Dec. 16, at approximately 4:30 p.m. local time, the woman — who works for the ...
A 30-year-old skydiver is injured but alive after her parachute failed to deploy, causing her to fall more than 5,000 to the ground. Skydiver in Quebec survives 5,000-foot fall after parachute ...
The woman was saved in a "high angle rescue" after the Sept. 10 incident, according to authorities Woman Survives 150-Foot Fall at Remote Waterfall in Washington State: ‘Serious Injuries’ Skip ...
All 12 on board Flight 28 were killed; both army pilots survived. [25] An Arrow Air DC-3 crashed as it flew into terrain on approach to Sacramento, killing all 9 on board. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013. Of the 307 people aboard, three were killed and 181 injured. [26] [27]
I survived falling off a mountain. Gurbaz Singh, 18, student. When I was 13, I climbed my first mountain—a fairly gentle 3,900-foot peak near where I live in Surrey, British Columbia.