Friday, January 04, 2008

Surviving a Terrorist Attack...And Quite A Fall

"Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, in the winter of 1972, fell 33,330 feet from an airplane over the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) after a terrorist bomb ripped it to pieces, earning her a place in the Guinness Book: “Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute.” She was the sole survivor — 27 others died — and was found on a snowy mountainside by a German hiker, a serving cart pinned against her spine.
Putting her back together again: She never walked again, but aside from that, Vesna made a full recovery. She even went back to work for the airline (though she took a desk job), and claims to have suffered no psychological trauma as a result of the accident, because a month-long amnesia erased it from her memory."

Via mental_floss

1 comment:

Nancy said...

Bob, please email me about payU2blog...

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