For other inquiries, Contact Us. Brad was reportedly thrown around so violently that his tightly-laced shoe came flying off. I won't send you spam. Originally, Vesna was never supposed to be on this flight. Her physicians also concluded her low blood pressure to be a cause. It was not just surviving the crash but also the mental trauma of knowing that you have experienced one of the worst things that could possibly happen to you, Glenday added. Then, read about Charles Joughin, the baker on the Titanic who survived the frigid waters that night through interesting means. Learn how your comment data is processed. She was thus officially acknowledged as having surpassed the records of other fall survivors, such as Alan Magee, Juliane Koepcke, Nicholas Alkemade, and Ivan Chisov. How did Vesna Vulovic survive? 3 January 1950; d. 23 December 2016) was 23 and working as a Jugoslavenski Aerotransport hostess when she survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,333 ft) over Srbsk Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on 26 January 1972. On the day of the crash, Vesna boarded JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Air Safety investigators explained she survived because she got trapped by a food cart. As he went to investigate, he came across a grisly sight: the wreckage of an airplane, torn apart by an explosion. She suffered a fractured skull, two broken legs, three broken vertebrae, a fractured pelvis, several broken ribs and temporary paralysis below the waist. All of the other 27 passengers and crew on board died. Clickheretouploadyours, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Your email address will not be published. Vesna Vulovi (Yugoslavia, b. Although an anonymous Croatian nationalist claimed responsibility for the bombing in a phone call to a Swedish newspaper, no arrests were ever made. Serbia's state. Vulovi was rescued by a woodsman who followed her screams in the dark forest. Vesna Vulovic was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160m (33,330ft; 6.31mi). The rest of the 28 crew and passengers flew to their deaths when the cabin depressurized but she was trapped by the food cart.