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re: An Allied airman survived a fall from 18,000 feet on this date 79 years ago...
Posted on 3/24/23 at 5:52 pm to Pax Regis
Posted on 3/24/23 at 5:52 pm to Pax Regis
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No way you survive 18,000 feet fall.
Above a certain height (roughly 1,500 feet according to Google but it will depend on the individual and how they fall) the height no longer matters. Terminal velocity is terminal velocity. The only difference at that height is the lack of oxygen. Being unconscious might have helped him survive TBH.
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Posted on 3/24/23 at 5:53 pm to RollTide1987
He probably knew how to land. You know…rolled with it like they do on TV.
Or super hero landing?
Or super hero landing?
Posted on 3/24/23 at 6:03 pm to RollTide1987
I read about a lady that fell out of a plane and landed on a ant hill. The ants stinging her kept her alive apparently.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 6:08 pm to Old Money
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He could have just jumped up at the last second before the plane crashed and he would have been fine. Same with a falling elevator
Guess you missed the part about the plane exploding not long after he bailed out.
Oh, and Road Runner cartoons haven't much application in real life situations.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 6:29 pm to RollTide1987
A true miracle.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 6:51 pm to RollTide1987
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Stalag III Luft
Wonder if he was part of the Great Escape
Posted on 3/24/23 at 7:00 pm to RollTide1987
There’s another story that a tail gunner witnessed this event, and a couple weeks later he was pulled out of the tail section of his bomber after it was cut in half. It all makes the ghost of Kyiv seem believable.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 7:05 pm to lostinbr
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Being unconscious might have helped him survive TBH.
I literally just told my wife this.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 7:06 pm to MintBerry Crunch
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Wonder if he was part of the Great Escape
Nah. He was actually shot down on the night they made their escape.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 7:31 pm to RollTide1987
It would have really sucked if he'd been shot as a spy after surviving that fall. But I guess that would suck under any circumstances.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 7:32 pm to RollTide1987
Pretty amazing
Posted on 3/24/23 at 8:02 pm to Proximo
frick you and Biden too
Posted on 3/24/23 at 8:21 pm to Tarps99
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Then he landed in some soft snow to ice down his wounds and bone fractures.
I suspect you would have a better chance of surviving a landing in the Sierra Nevadas in the last few weeks with 600” of fresh snow on the ground.
You may die in the 20’ snowdrift, but the landing would have been easier…
Posted on 3/24/23 at 8:36 pm to LSUBoo
An airline stewardess (what they called them back then) survived falling six miles after a bomb exploded on the plane she was working. That fall is the world record for surviving a fall without a parachute. I remember reading the story in a believe or not or strange but true type book when I was a kid.
Vesna Vulovic
Vesna Vulovic
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Vesna Vulovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ???????, pronounced [?êsna ?û?lo?it?]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi). She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 8:56 pm to CajunTiger92
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Air safety investigators attributed Vulovic's survival to her being trapped by a food cart in the DC-9's fuselage as it broke away from the rest of the aircraft and plummeted towards the ground. When the cabin depressurized, the passengers and other flight crew were blown out of the aircraft and fell to their deaths. Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulovic pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the impact.[1][a] Vulovic's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused her to pass out quickly after the cabin depressurized and kept her heart from bursting on impact.[7] Vulovic said that she was aware of her low blood pressure before applying to become a flight attendant and knew that it would result in her failing her medical examination, but she drank an excessive amount of coffee beforehand and was accepted.[3]
Posted on 3/24/23 at 8:59 pm to Pax Regis
18000 ft or 100 ft. It's all the same dumbass
Posted on 3/25/23 at 7:18 pm to nealnan8
Did he parachute out of the plane?
NO CHECK.
Because it isn’t really verifiable if he’s the sole survivor.
NO CHECK.
Because it isn’t really verifiable if he’s the sole survivor.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 9:28 am to nealnan8
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This would be pretty easy to check, actually. Was he on this flight when it left? YES. Check Did his plane return to base? NO. Check Did the rest of the crew die? YES. Check Was the wreckage found? YES. Check Was he who he said he was? YES. Check
It’s amazing the ability of the military to keep old records. I can look up every mission my uncle flew on in 1944, which includes what they bombed and the final mission result.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 9:34 am to lostinbr
quote:Usually for humans without parachutes it is.
Terminal velocity is terminal velocity.
Posted on 3/26/23 at 9:49 am to RollTide1987
I wonder how he survived it
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