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The 33,000-Foot Fall
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Unbelievable RecordsMay 15, 2026

The 33,000-Foot Fall

The 33,000-Foot Fall January 26, 1972. Vesna Vulović, 22, was working JAT Flight 367. A bomb tore the plane apart over Czechoslovakia. She fell 33,333 feet pinned inside a section of fuselage. She landed in snow on a mountainside. She survived. She lived another 44 years.

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