I’m always amazed by stories about people who cheat death when the odds are extremely against them surviving. One example of this type of situation is the story of Vesna Vulović, the woman who fell from the sky...
On the 26th of January in 1972, an explosion caused by a bomb ripped apart JAT Flight 367 over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on which Vesna Vulović was a flight attendant. Along with everyone else aboard that flight, Vulović plummeted 10,160 metres (33,300 feet) in temperatures of 60 degrees below zero towards the ground. Everyone died on impact, except for Vulovic.
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| Vesna Vulović (Photo from here.) |
She was rescued from the wrecked fuselage by Bruno Honke, a local man who had heard her screams. Having been in the German Army as a medic during World War II, he knew how to treat her at the site of the accident until help arrived. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae (one crushed completely) that left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down and two broken legs. She was in a coma for 27 days. Within 10 months, she was walking again, a feat she attributes to eating chocolate, spinach and fish oil as a child, and to having the stubbornness of a Serb.
I tell you, when it’s not your time, no matter what the grim reaper has planned, he just can’t touch you...
Incidentally, Vesna Vulović was not scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another female flight attendant who was also named Vesna. Makes you wonder if the other flight attendant would have been as lucky.
And just so you know:
This story may be
hugely slightly exaggerated as a cover up for something else (read more
here). But I’ll let you come to your own conclusions. I’m leaving the story as is on this post because it’s much more interesting this way.
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