Vesna Vulović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
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Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District
About Vesna Vulović
- Vesna Vulovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ??????? [?êsna ?û?lo?it?]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi).
- She was the sole survivor after a briefcase bomb tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia.
- The Yugoslav authorities suspected that Croatian nationalists were to blame, but no one was ever arrested. Following the bombing, Vulovic spent days in a coma and was hospitalized for several months.
- She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, broken legs, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis.
- These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.
- She made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp.
- Vulovic had no memory of the incident and had no qualms about flying in the aftermath of the crash.
- Despite her willingness to resume work as a flight attendant, Jat Airways (JAT) gave her a desk job negotiating freight contracts, feeling her presence on flights would attract too much publicity.
- Vulovic became a celebrity in Yugoslavia and was deemed a national hero. She was fired from JAT in the early 1990s after taking part in anti-government protests during the breakup of Yugoslavia, but avoided arrest as the government was concerned about the negative publicity that her imprisonment would bring.
- She continued her work as a pro-democracy activist until the Socialist Party of Serbia was ousted from power during the Bulldozer Revolution of October 2000.
- Vulovic later campaigned on behalf of the Democratic Party, advocating for Serbia's entry into the European Union.
- Her final years were spent in seclusion and she struggled with survivor guilt.
- Having divorced, she lived alone in her Belgrade apartment on a small pension until her death in 2016.
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