![]() ![]() Officially, Vulović had fallen more than 33,000 feet (10 kilometers), and Guinness World Records eventually recognized her as the person who survived the longest fall without a parachute. Vulović was the only one of the 28 people on board to survive. She lost a massive amount of blood and spent the next three days in a coma with a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae and assorted other injuries, but somehow she managed to hang on. Rescuers eventually found Vulović in the still-smoking fuselage, her legs poking out of the wreckage with the 3-inch (nearly 8-centimeter) stiletto heels torn off her shoes by the impact. As the aircraft flew over what is now the Czech Republic, it suddenly exploded. 26, 1972, Vesna Vulović took off from Copenhagen on a Yugoslav Airlines flight to Belgrade, on a work assignment caused by a scheduling mix-up. A 22-year-old flight attendant went down in history for surviving the longest fall from a plane. ![]()
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