Wednesday, June 13, 2012

V is for Vesna Vulović

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Vesna Vulović has an unusual claim to fame – according to the Guinness Book of Records, she holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute, some 33,330 feet. This unsought achievement happened on 26 January 1972 when Vulović was a flight attendant on Yugoslav Airline Flight 367 and a bomb exploded on board. The plane broke in two and spun out of [...]

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