Serbia Stewardess Who Survived 1972 Plane Crash, Record Fall Dies at 66

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Serbia Stewardess Who Survived 1972 Plane Crash, Record Fall Dies at 66

BELGRADE, SERBIA —

Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian stewardess who miraculously survived a plunge from 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) after her plane exploded in midair in 1972, has died. She was 66.

Serbia’s state TV said Saturday Vulovic was found dead by her friends in her apartment in Belgrade. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Vulovic was working as a Yugoslav Airlines flight attendant January 26, 1972, when the Douglas DC-9 airliner she was aboard blew up high above the snowy mountain ranges of Czechoslovakia. All 27 other passengers and crew aboard perished.

Bomb suspected

Vulovic entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1985 for “the highest fall survived without a parachute.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAT_Flight_367
Flight JAT 367 for more reading.

[mountaineer]

I believe I saw her in a documentary about people who survived horrific plane crashes. Those Serbs are tough (my Serbian-American spouse would appreciate this comment).

[TomSea]

Authentic comment?

[mountaineer]

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