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Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 https://en.wikip
by jpatokal 9y ago
Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
- toomuchtodo 9y agoTangently related: Israeli F-15 pilot who loses a wing in a mid-air collision and still successfully lands. https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wing/ https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi... Interesting tidbit: they slapped a replacement wing on and returned the aircraft to service.
- sundvor 9y agoTalk about winging it! Great link thanks. Probably a good thing no-one told the pilot how badly his plane was damaged.
- mc32 9y agoAnd totally different tangent, GM will not warranty a C7 because of a minor crack on the chassis[1] so it's declared totaled and offered for 7.5 grand or so. [1]http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/09/one-tiny-crack-led-a-c7-corvette-grand-sport-to-be-totaled/ http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/09/one-tiny-crack-led-a-c7-...
- lallysingh 9y agohttps://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-corvette-was-totaled-because-of-one-inch-of-1806727930 https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-corvette-was-totaled-becaus... A small crack, but not minor.
- avip 9y agoInterview with the pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE
- cyberferret 9y agoVesna only passed away late last year (of old age). I remember reading her remarkable story as a kid.
- bujak 9y agoNope, that story is probably a fabrication. Plane was likely shot down during emergency landing. Huge fuckup by communist forces that was covered up.
- dredmorbius 9y agoReference?
- neurotech1 9y agoThere is a few similar cases Bahia Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia_Flight_626 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia_Flight_626 Juliane Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508
- jackson1way 9y agovery interesting stories! there is a few similar posts here, but I always thought that the only known person who ever survived a fatal passenger aircraft crash, dropping out at high altitude, was this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke She was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest. When the airliner broke up in mid-air, she survived after plummeting about 3 km (~10,000 feet) while still strapped to her seat, before crashing through the rain forest canopy and coming to rest on the forest floor. Her injuries did allow her to walk for 10 days, until she was found. So you could say, it was mostly light injuries. It is nowhere mentioned that she had a missing spleen btw. someone else posted also this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airline_accidents_or_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airl...