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Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016 [1]) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet.
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 ...
On 26 January 1972, the 22 year old Serbian flight attendant onboard JAT Flight 367 survived a fall from a height of 10,160 meters (33,316 feet) as the aircraft exploded above Czechoslovakia. She is the record holder on the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute. Larisa Savitskaya.
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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 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.