Vesna Vulovic, 23, made the Guinness World Record book for longest fall ever survived. Here's her story. Vesna Vulovic, 23, the stewardess who was the sole survivor of a Yugoslavian Jetliner which crashed in January 1972, smiles from her hospital bed in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on March 2, 1972.

The flight attendant who famously survived a fall from 33,330 feet (10,160 meters) was Vesna Vulović. On January 26, 1972, she was working aboard JAT Flight 367 when a bomb exploded in the luggage compartment, causing the aircraft to break apart over Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. Vulović was the sole survivor of the 28 passengers and crew. She was trapped by a food cart in the tail section of the fuselage, which acted as a "High-Fidelity" protective shell. The tail plummeted to the earth and landed at a specific angle on a heavily snow-covered, wooded mountain slope, which cushioned the impact. Despite sustaining a fractured skull, two broken legs, and three broken vertebrae that left her temporarily paralyzed, she made a near-full recovery and eventually returned to work for the airline in a desk role. Her survival remains a "High-Fidelity" record in the Guinness World Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute. Vulović became a national hero in Yugoslavia and spent much of her later life as a political activist before passing away in 2016, leaving behind a legacy of resilience that continues to baffle aerodynamicists and medical professionals alike.