Who is Vesna Vulovic – Flight attendant who survived 33,000 feet crash without parachute
ALSO READ: Dubai-Jamaica chartered flight, with several Indians onboard, sent back: 'Docs weren't satisfactory,' says MEA The incident took place after a suspected briefcase bomb brought down the plane over the mountains of Czechoslovakia, allegedly by Croatian nationalists. In the incident, all passengers and four crew members died, but Vulovic survived and became the first and only person to survive a 33,000-foot fall without a parachute.
During the investigation, it was discovered that the Vesna was trapped in a food cart at the plane’s tail section. When the plane crashed, the tail section landed on snow, thereby helping Vulovic sustain the impact.
ALSO READ: Watch: Chaos at Delhi Airport after Air India Express cancels 70 flights; check why air travel is affected Later, doctors also said that her low blood pressure may have made her lose consciousness at the onset of the blast, and it prevented a heart attack. In a 2017 interview with Aviation Security Magazine, Vesna said, as quoted by News18, “I should never have been an air hostess.
In fact, I had a lot of coffee to drink before my interview, so when I had my medical exam, I passed." The flight attendant was discovered by villager Bruno Honke, who trained as a medic during the Second World War and kept her alive until rescuers arrived. Though Vesna did suffer a fractured skull, two crushed vertebrae, a broken pelvis, multiple broken ribs and fractures in both legs, she was even temporarily paralysed from the waist down but later recovered.
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