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re: Vesna Vulovic. Longest fall from airplane. WYHI
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:11 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:11 pm to Ace Midnight
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Her name was so sensual and suggestive, it's almost obscene.
“Say Vesna. What dat vulva do?”
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:12 pm to Tyga Woods
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There are reports that she landed at an optimal angle on the side of a snow covered mountain and that reduced the impact somewhat.
Presumably, as she was sliding down the mountain face a giant snowball formed around her, creating a protective cocoon.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:18 pm to Tyga Woods
Not a true freefall. Doesn’t count...she needs to retry.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:26 pm to JackieTreehorn
Did Mr. Glass set off the explosion to find out if Vesna was Unbreakable?
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:28 pm to Ace Midnight
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Yeah, she was only in a coma for 10 days. "Walk that off. Rub some dirt and spray some Windex(tm) on it."
Forgot to rub some Tussin on it.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:49 pm to Tyga Woods
In the skydiving world you get 9 seconds of freefall for the first 1000' (to reach terminal velocity) and then 6 seconds for every 1000' after that.
The FAA requires oxygen in a non-sealed airplane that goes above 15,000'... Mountaineers refer to the altitudes above 26,000' as the "death zone", where it is generally believed that no human body can acclimatize
That means she fell approximately 0:42 in the death zone and 1:48 in an oxygen deficient atmosphere in sub zero temperatures before going to a normal freefall distance with no parachute.
I'm not saying she didn't fall and survive... but she didn't fall from 33,000'
ETA: WNHI - She has been dead for a while... gross!!
The FAA requires oxygen in a non-sealed airplane that goes above 15,000'... Mountaineers refer to the altitudes above 26,000' as the "death zone", where it is generally believed that no human body can acclimatize
That means she fell approximately 0:42 in the death zone and 1:48 in an oxygen deficient atmosphere in sub zero temperatures before going to a normal freefall distance with no parachute.
I'm not saying she didn't fall and survive... but she didn't fall from 33,000'
ETA: WNHI - She has been dead for a while... gross!!
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:57 pm to Tyga Woods
Anyone search reddit yet? You know, for....
Posted on 1/22/18 at 1:58 pm to Boudreaux35
Heard that the ground will feel like concrete from that far up.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:17 pm to RedHawk
She was a flight attendant and lead a pretty eventful life behind the Iron Curtain and into the post cold war Yugoslavia era.
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She was fired from JAT in 1990 after taking part in anti-government protests, but avoided arrest because the government was concerned about the negative publicity that her imprisonment would bring. She continued her work as a pro-democracy activist until the Socialist Party of Serbia was ousted from power during the Bulldozer Revolution of October 2000. Vulovic later campaigned on behalf of the Democratic Party of Serbia, advocating Serbia's entry into the European Union. The final years of her life were spent in seclusion and she continued to struggle with survivor's guilt. Having divorced, she lived alone in her Belgrade apartment on a small pension until her death in 2016.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:31 pm to reggo75
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I'm not saying she didn't fall and survive... but she didn't fall from 33,000'
In all fairness to the lady (who passed a little more than a year ago at the relatively young age of 66) - she never claimed she did. She blacked out and was not able to confirm or deny even the 2009 investigative journalism speculative report.
She was definitely on the airplane, it definitely blew the frick up in midflight (now, whether that was Eastern bloc "engineering" - terrorism, or inadvertent shoot down by Czechoslovakia, I don't think we'll ever know) and she definitely survived the fall all the way to the ground. Even if it was from the relatively low ~2k feet (from a 2009 speculation that is not really based on science or other evidence, just anomalies in the investigatory record), it's amazingly remarkable - although others have survived similar or even higher falls.
I like the Brit tailgunner, Stephen Alkemade - who essentially lived through the events of the Pink Floyd song, "The Gunner's Dream" - 18000 feet into pine tress and snow - just suffered a sprained leg. The Gestapo thought he was full of shite until they examined the wreckage of the Lancaster. His parachute burned up on the aircraft and he opted to jump rather than burn up in the plane on the way to the ground. Ole boy lived to be 64 - got another 43 years out of life and I bet each moment was sweeter than the next.
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:39 pm to Carson123987
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dont see how thats possible. i feel like you'd look like this
because she AND the tail section of the plane fell together so it acted like a crush compartment to soften the impact as well as slow down the rate of fall.
it really is a WTF how can that happen thing but she lived through a miracle thing she should have died from
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