Vesna Vulović

Born

January 3, 1950

Died

December 23, 2016 (aged 66)

Known as

flight attendant

Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres. She was the sole survivor of JAT Flight 367 after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb. The Yugoslav authorities suspected that émigré Croatian nationalists were to blame, but no one was ever arrested.

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