re: Woman unbuckles harness while parasailing. Sadly, she cannot fly. NSFW

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Jump out a 16th story window and report back to us

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I don't have that sort of confidence

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This was a suicide, sadly.

Hell of a way to go out.

Still would

Surprised her innertube lips didn't keep her afloat.

I give the girl and the landing 9.5

I appreciate the fact they’re saying panic attack to ease the family, but she looked like she was very much in control and was methodically unbuckling those harnesses

She killed herself, plain and simple. The truth hurts..

I think it was a combo of panic and thinking the water would be a soft landing.

One thing we don’t know is how deep the water was. They are not that far off shore. If water was only 15-20 feet deep, you’ll go down farther than that if coming from 160 ft up.

I’ve jumped off a 60 ft cliff and I went at least 20 feet down. Was kind of creepy the first time not realizing it would be a long swim back to the top.

The flight attendant that famously survived a jet airliner breaking up at over 33,000 feet is a crazy story.

Trapped in fuselage by a food cart
Landed at an angle in heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside
Low blood pressure caused her to pass out and kept heart from bursting
Found by a WWII medic who was able to keep her alive
Drank excessive coffee to even become a flight attendant

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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 survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,333 feet. She was the sole survivor of JAT Flight 367 after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now part of the Czech Republic).

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Flight 367 departed from Copenhagen Airport at 3:15 p.m. At 4:01 p.m., an explosion tore through the DC-9's baggage compartment.[5] The explosion caused the aircraft to break apart over the then-Czechoslovak village of Srbská Kamenice.[4] Vulovic was the only survivor of the 28 passengers and crew.[1][2] She was discovered by villager Bruno Honke, who heard her screaming amid the wreckage. Her turquoise uniform was covered in blood and her stiletto heels had been torn off by the force of the impact.[4] Honke had been a medic during the Second World War and was able to keep Vulovic alive until rescuers arrived.[3][6]

Air safety investigators attributed Vulovic's survival to her being trapped by a food trolley 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

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Sadly she lived with survivors' gulit and died at age 66.

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One thing we don’t know is how deep the water was. They are not that far off shore. If water was only 15-20 feet deep, you’ll go down farther than that if coming from 160 ft up.

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This is something I 100% did not account for in my post on page 1. Good point.

I do think that there is merit to the theory that something was lost in translation about the height and it was 160m