Folk Figure. She was an air stewardess who survived the highest ever fall by a human being after her plane broke up at 33,000 ft. Vulovic was working on a Yugoslav Airlines Douglas DC-9 on January 26, 1972 when a suspected bomb brought the plane down among mountains in Czechoslovakia. All 27 other passengers and crew members died. She was trapped by a food cart in the plane's tail section as it plummeted to earth in freezing temperatures. The tail landed in a heavily wooded and snow-blanketed part of a mountainside, which was thought to have cushioned the impact. Vulovic was rescued by a woodsman who heard her screaming in the dark while the debris came down around them. She fell in to a coma for 10 days after suffering a fractured skull, two crushed vertebrae, a broken pelvis, several broken ribs and both legs shattered. In 1985, her fall gained her a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute, a record which stands to this day. In time she made a near-full recovery and returned to work for the airline in a desk job.
Folk Figure. She was an air stewardess who survived the highest ever fall by a human being after her plane broke up at 33,000 ft. Vulovic was working on a Yugoslav Airlines Douglas DC-9 on January 26, 1972 when a suspected bomb brought the plane down among mountains in Czechoslovakia. All 27 other passengers and crew members died. She was trapped by a food cart in the plane's tail section as it plummeted to earth in freezing temperatures. The tail landed in a heavily wooded and snow-blanketed part of a mountainside, which was thought to have cushioned the impact. Vulovic was rescued by a woodsman who heard her screaming in the dark while the debris came down around them. She fell in to a coma for 10 days after suffering a fractured skull, two crushed vertebrae, a broken pelvis, several broken ribs and both legs shattered. In 1985, her fall gained her a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute, a record which stands to this day. In time she made a near-full recovery and returned to work for the airline in a desk job.
Bio by: Louis du Mort
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