On January twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy-two, a bomb destroyed a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight at thirty-three thousand feet over Czechoslovakia. All twenty-eight people on board were killed — except one flight attendant named Vesna Vulović, who fell the full distance, was found alive in the wreckage, and spent twenty-seven days in a coma before waking up. She holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute. She was not supposed to be on that flight. The airline had confused her name with another flight attendant named Vesna.

In this episode of 5 Minute Strange, we cover the bombing of Flight three sixty-seven, the combination of factors that saved Vulović while killing everyone else on board, the local man who found her alive and kept her stable until help arrived, and the political activist she became in later life — a woman who survived a fall from the stratosphere and then, decades later, was beaten by unknown assailants for speaking out. She died in twenty sixteen from a heart attack at age sixty-six.

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