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Video about woman who fell 33,000 feet and survived

How a Woman Survived Falling 33,000 Feet Without a Parachute


On January 26, 1972, a suspected bomb exploded on board a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 and the debris of the plane rained down on mountains in the former Czechoslovakia. Everyone died except flight attendant Vesna Vulovic. After a long but full recovery, she returned to work for the airlines until she was fired in 1990 for protesting against President Slobodan Milošević’s nationalism. Vulovic died in 2016. Watch her story above.


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