"I initially stayed with my parents' friends in Newbury," she recalled, "but wanted to move to London. Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English-language skills. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. Having divorced, Vulović lived alone in her Belgrade apartment on a small pension until her death in 2016. Her final years were spent in seclusion, and she struggled with survivor guilt. Vulović later campaigned on behalf of the Democratic Party, advocating for Serbia's entry into the European Union. 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. Vulović was fired from JAT in the early 1990s after taking part in anti-government protests during the breakup of Yugoslavia, but avoided arrest as the government was concerned about the negative publicity that her imprisonment would bring. Vulović became a celebrity in Yugoslavia and was deemed a national hero. Despite her willingness to resume work as a flight attendant, Jat Airways (JAT) gave her a desk job negotiating freight contracts, feeling her presence on flights would attract too much publicity. She had no memory of the incident and had no qualms about flying in the aftermath of the crash. Vulović made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp. These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, broken legs, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis. Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb.įollowing the bombing, Vulović spent days in a coma and was hospitalised for several months. 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. Vesna Vulović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced 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).
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