Freefall record in 1972

Vesna Vulović

Vesna Vulovic born January 3, 1950 is the Guinness record holder of the highest free fall in which a human being has survived.

On 26 January 1972, the aircraft, a DC-9 of Yugoslav Airlines, which provided the Copenhagen - Zagreb, on which she was exercising his profession stewardess exploded in flight, at an altitude of 10,160 meters.

Vesna Vulović, which was in the central part of the device was thrown out of the cabin without a parachute and went crashing more than 10 miles down, near the Czech village of Kamenice. She had two broken legs and a fractured skull and a paralysis that would fade with time.