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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 ...
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 earliest known female sole survivor is Linda McDonald. On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash near Pittsburgh that killed nine other people, including her boyfriend. She was 17 at the time. [2] The youngest sole survivor is Chanayuth Nim-anong, who on 3 September 1997, survived a crash when he was just 14 months ...
A California family of three – including a two-year-old girl – survived a plane crash with only minor cuts and scratches on Friday after the aircraft’s parachute system lowered them to safety.
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 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.
Wings of Hope (German: Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel, literally "Juliane's Fall into the Jungle") is a 1998 [1] made-for-TV documentary directed by Werner Herzog.The film explores the story of Juliane Koepcke, a German Peruvian woman who was the sole survivor of Peruvian flight LANSA Flight 508 following its mid-air disintegration after a lightning strike in 1971.
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 ...