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The saga on JAT flight 367 and the survival of FA Vesna Vulović, who fell 33,330 feet from the aircraft!

This is probably the strangest survival story concerning a flight attendant and a airplane crash.

From Wikipedia:

JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying NDB Hermsdorf (located in or around Hinterhermsdorf, in the present-day municipality of Sebnitz), East Germany, while en route from Stockholm to Belgrade on January 26, 1972.

The aircraft, piloted by captain Ludvik Razdrih and first officer Ratko Mihić, broke into three pieces and spun out of control, crashing near the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Of the 28 on board, 27 were killed upon ground impact and one Yugoslav crew member, Vesna Vulović (1950–2016), survived.

She holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi).

More on Vesna Vulović:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

#OTD in 1972: JAT Flight 367, a DC-9, is bombed by Croatian terrorists over Sebnitz (E. Germany), 27 aboard die. Aircraft broke apart and wreckage crashed in Czechoslovakia. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović was the sole survivor after the jet fell from about 33330 ft/10160 meters. pic.twitter.com/Tw2TrONHIj

— Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha (@OnDisasters) January 26, 2022

Vesna Vulović was only 22, when she survived a bomb explosion onboard JAT flight 367 on 26th January 1972. She fell 33,330ft to the earth without a parachute. pic.twitter.com/rbQLn7QAwb

— CC (@Odogwu_cc) May 31, 2021

#Episode53 is up!
Tune in to hear about the incredible Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on JAT flight 367.
We also talk ear cleaning preferences! What are yours? #podcast #pod #Airplane #Survivor https://t.co/hSYVJyv7EY pic.twitter.com/FCX5Qs4l13

— Anxious and Afraid: The Pod (@aathepod) December 15, 2020

Top Copyright Photo: Sister ship of YU-AHT: JAT-Yugoslav Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 YU-AJH (msn 47562) ZRH (Rolf Wallner). Image: 921099.

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