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Old 01-03-08, 07:25 PM   #2
Dowly
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I've heard that a russian/hungarian/ukrain something like that stewardess fell ~10km or so without a parachute after the airplane exploded and miracously survived. I think it was in some old edition of Guinness book of Records. Go figure.

EDIT: Here it is

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4. Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute -- Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 33,330 feet when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004...0111_15_04.txt
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