EBE Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 On January 26, 1972, a 22-year-old flight attendant named Vesna Vulovic was cruising at 33,330 feet above Czechoslovakia in a DC-9 airplane While passing over the city of Srbska-Kamenice, a explosive device detonated. The DC-9 was torn into pieces, and the plane?s wreckage, along with its 28 passengers, fell through the sky for three long minutes before striking a frozen mountainside. A German man, upon arriving at the crash site, found all of the plane?s passengers dead, ecxept one. Vesna was lying half outside of the plane, with another crew member?s body on top of her, and a serving cart pinned against her spine. The man had been a medic in the second world war, and did what he could for her until further help arrived. At the hospital, her parents were told that although there was still life in her body, she would not survive. Her skull was broken and hemorrhaging, both of her legs were broken, and she had three crushed vertebrae. But three days later, she awoke from her coma, and asked for a cigarette. Vesna was paralyzed from the waist down, but she was alive and conscious. Two weeks after the accident, her doctor told her what had happened, and gave her a newspaper to read the story, but the memory of this event would escape her, as did everything from one hour before the accident to one month after, due to amnesia. Later, she underwent surgery that restored movement to her left leg, and a month after that, she regained movement in her right leg. Eventually, she was able to walk again. Vesna currently holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet. (has no relevance what so ever but good story ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skaz~SPARTA~ Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 thats one lucky mofo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MH6~SPARTA~ Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) Another badass survivor story. This chick not only survived falling over two miles, but then survived in the rain forest and finally managed to find help. As the plane disintegrated, a 17-year-old German Peruvian teenager, Juliane Koepcke, fell down into the Amazon rainforest 2 miles (3 km) below, strapped to her seat. Despite sustaining a broken collar bone, a deep gash to her right arm, a concussion and an eye injury in the fall, she was able to trek through the dense Amazon jungle for 10 days, until she was rescued by local lumbermen, who subsequently took her by canoe back to civilization. It was later discovered that as many as 14 other passengers also survived the initial fall from the disintegrated plane but were unable to seek help and died while awaiting rescue Also, an interesting list of sole crash survivors: http://listverse.com...-a-plane-crash/ And for those interested, here's a chilling site that has both the recordings and transcripts of various black boxes prior to the crashes, including some from the above list. (Such as #9) http://www.planecras...m/lastwords.htm Edited October 21, 2012 by MH6~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) Wasnt there a dude that survived a skydive this week?...lemme look it up.... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/student-liam-byrne-fortunate-to-survive-parachute-failure-8212049.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19945098 Edited October 21, 2012 by EL_n00biachi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJsarge Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I've listened to an entire black box recording where everybody on board died, while watching footage of that crash. It is not pretty, and I don't ever want to do it again. I'm getting chills and tearing up just thinking about it now. If you think it's funny, awesome, or anything of that nature, you deserve the deepest pit in hell from an executioner who has no mercy. And these stories are proof that the human body is only as weak as you make it. We are capable of surviving the most incredible events and doing things we never knew we could do. Ever hear of the mother who lifted an entire 5,000lb car so her baby could be rescued? Or tornado victims who got carried 5 miles before being dropped and surviving with no injuries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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