Vesna Vulovic: How Did A Serbian Flight Attendant Fall 10,160 Meters And Miraculously Survive?

Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who fell 10,160 meters (33,333 feet) from a crashing plane and, somehow, lived to tell the tale. It’s the longest fall without a parachute ever recorded, according to Guinness World Records, although parts of the story are still shrouded in mystery and intrigue.

The incident began on January 25, 1972 when JAT Flight 367 departed from Stockholm in Sweden. It was heading to Belgrade (now in Serbia, then Yugoslavia), but it had two stopovers along the way, in the Danish capital Copenhagen and another in Zagreb (now Croatia, then Yugoslavia).

After leaving Copenhagen Airport at 3:15 pm on the journey's second leg, the aircraft was rocked by a powerful explosion at 4:01 pm as the plane passed over the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia, s