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Vesna Vulović (
Serbian:
Весна Вуловић) (born
3 January 1950) holds the
Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the
highest fall without a parachute: 10,160
meters (33,316
feet).
The fall occurred on
January 26,
1972, over
Srbská Kamenice in
Czechoslovakia (now
Czech Republic), after
JAT Flight JU 367, on which Vulović was a
flight attendant, exploded. The cause of the explosion has never been established, but was attributed by the Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian authorities to a bomb placed on the plane by a Croatian
terrorist group, known as the
Ustaša
The 22-year old wasn't scheduled to be on that flight; she'd been mixed up with another female flight attendant who was also named Vesna.
Vulović continued working for
JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken
vertebrae, which left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs after surgery and continued to fly sporadically. She claims she's no fear of flying which she attributes to the loss of memory of the crash and even allows her to enjoy watching movies with plane crashes. She is considered a national heroine throughout the former
Yugoslavia.
Vulović was awarded the
Guinness Record title by
Sir Paul McCartney at a ceremony.
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