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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.
The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash; after falling 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffering numerous injuries, she survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she was rescued by ...
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 ...
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 routine flight became a first-class reunion for a pilot and one of his passengers.. On a United Airlines flight in Houston, Texas, the pilot came on the overhead speaker to deliver a special ...
Woman dies after falling ill mid-flight to North Carolina. Amelia Neath. March 1, 2024 at 5:40 PM. ... The Today Show. Dick Van Dyke, 99, proves he doesn't skip leg day in new video.
She survived the 5,220 (17,130 ft) meter fall, and was rescued 3 days after the incident. Juliane Koepcke . On 24 December 1971, as LANSA Flight 508 went down in bad weather, the 17 year old survived a 3,048 meter (10,000 ft) fall, and spent eleven days alone navigating through the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued.
The model was just 23 when she walked into a plane's propeller -- but it's made her feel more "empowered." Model Lauren Scruggs on how her horrific accident has helped her become who she is today ...