survival stories

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 400,000 people a year die from falls. These falls vary in height but many are from less than 20 feet. Then there’s this group of people, some of whom fell tens of thousands of feet and lived to tell about it. Vesna Vulovic Distance Fallen: 33,000 feet Vesna Vulovic was a flight attendant on a Yugoslav Airlines flight on Jan. 26, 1972 when a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists exploded at 33,000 feet, ripping the plane in half. Vulovic was pinned in the tail section by a food cart, which kept her from being sucked out. The tail section landed at just the right ...