Show Notes
In 1972, a plane exploded mid-air over Czechoslovakia, breaking apart at 33,000 feet. All 27 people on board were killed - except one. That one was Vesna Vulović, a 22-year-old Yugoslav flight attendant, who somehow survived the fall without a parachute.
Her body was discovered among the wreckage, critically injured but alive. How did she survive when no one else did? Was it pure luck, a quirk of physics, or something more? And what became of her afterwards? This episode uncovers the astonishing survival of Vesna Vulović, the Guinness World Record holder for the highest fall without a parachute, and a woman whose life after the accident was as extraordinary as the event itself.
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