Vesna Vulović

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton  · 19 Sep 2016  · 1,048pp  · 187,324 words

, as well as a collapsed lung, the prognosis was poor. But following months of inpatient rehabilitation, McCloy was walking, speaking, and able to return home. Vesna Vulović Vesna Vulović has no memory of what occurred on January 26, 1972. That afternoon, the 22-year-old Serbian flight attendant boarded JAT Yugoslav Airways Flight 367

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journey was unremarkable. Then came the two-hour flight to Belgrade. About 40 minutes after takeoff, the plane exploded. Twenty-seven people died. One survived: Vesna Vulović. Vulović fell 33,330 feet (10,159 m), earning her a place in the Guinness Book of Records for surviving the highest fall without a

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares  · 15 Sep 2025  · 215pp  · 64,699 words

’S LIFE, THERE’S HOPE ON JANUARY 26, 1972, JAT flight 367 was destroyed by a briefcase bomb smuggled on board by terrorists. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović was trapped in the fuselage, which fell to the ground from a height of 6.3 miles (10.1 kilometers). We would have predicted with

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great confidence that Vesna Vulović would die, if somehow we’d been asked. We would have said it was an easy call. Vesna Vulović lived. Afterward she walked with a limp. “All who are among the living have hope,” said

QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition

by Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John  · 7 Oct 2010  · 624pp  · 104,923 words

of injuries per cat sharply declined. In other words, the further the cat fell, the better its chances. The most famous human free-falls are Vesna Vulović, who fell 10,600 metres (34,777 feet) when a terrorist bomb destroyed her Yugoslavian airlines DC-10 in 1972, and Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade