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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.
A 104-year-old Chicago woman ditched her walker and climbed into a plane to become the world's oldest person to tandem skydive — and it wasn't even her first freefall.
Watch a live scene of from the site of the Philadelphia plane crash on Saturday (1 February), as six people, including a child, are feared dead after air ambulance crashed into homes. A mid-size ...
The plane, flying from Connecticut, reached an altitude of about 1,600 feet during its first descent, while the helicopter was at about 300 feet, according to CNN. The Post first reported the ...
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 ...
Flight 811: 31 Survived falling from approximately 14,000ft, with the fall lasting 8 minutes. Survived with broken bones and a concussion. [62] [63] 1981-09-02 Remberto Aparicio 26 Male P Taxi Aéreo El Venado Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa 21 [64] [65] 1983-04-30 AT2 Melissa Kelly 30 Female P U.S. Navy: Convair C-131 14 [66] 1984-12-23 27 ...
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 ...
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 ...