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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 ...
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 model was just 23-years-old when she walked into a plane's propeller in the dark, losing an eye, a hand and suffering brain damage. Because her tragic story made news headlines that night, the ...
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.
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 ...
WASHINGTON – A dramatic plane crash in frigid temperatures. And a search and rescue that saved lives on the same partially frozen Potomac River. Almost 43 years ago to the day, tragedy struck ...
British Royal Air Force rear gunner survived a fall with only some bruising and a twisted knee. Landed in deep snow drift in a pine forest near Berlin. [1] Larisa Savitskaya: 17,130 5,220 1981 Sole survivor of Aeroflot Flight 811 who was in an aircraft fragment after the mid-air collision, which landed in a swampy glade. [7] [8] Bear Grylls ...