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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.
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 ...
In 1985, The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Vulović as the world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi). She was thus officially acknowledged as having surpassed the records of other fall survivors, such as Alan Magee, Juliane Koepcke, Nicholas Alkemade, and Ivan Chisov. [6]
A California man who was stranded for three days at the base of a waterfall after falling 1,000 feet from a Hawaiian hiking trail said on Tuesday that his survival was nothing short of a "miracle."
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 ...
During a parachute jump on Easter Sunday 2015, both her main and reserve parachutes failed to open. She fell 4,000 ft (1,200 m) to the ground. She survived the fall despite life-threatening injuries [1] because she landed on a soft, newly ploughed field. [2] It was the second attempt on her life in less than a week. [2]
101 names are etched in stone at the memorial dedicated to those who perished on Eastern Flight 401. On Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, survivors, family members, and friends gathered for the unveiling ...
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats.The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, lightning struck the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 where she became the sole survivor of the crash.