{"id":1246998,"date":"2026-05-26T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1246998"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:34:53","slug":"vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>On 26 January 1972, a 22-year-old Yugoslav flight attendant named Vesna Vulovi\u0107 was working a JAT DC-9 service from Stockholm to Belgrade via Copenhagen. She had only joined the airline a few months earlier. She had been assigned to the flight by mistake &mdash; the airline had confused her with another stewardess of the same first name &mdash; and she had not even been asked whether she wanted to swap. She was simply on the manifest.<\/p>\n\n<p>What happened in the next forty-five minutes would put her name into Guinness World Records and keep it there for the rest of her life. Vesna Vulovi\u0107 became the only human being ever to fall ten kilometres without a parachute and live.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f0f0;border-radius:8px;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.7\"><li><strong>Name:<\/strong> Vesna Vulovi\u0107 (1950 &ndash; 2016)<\/li><li><strong>Role:<\/strong> Flight attendant, JAT Yugoslav Airlines<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, registration YU-AHT<\/li><li><strong>Date of incident:<\/strong> 26 January 1972<\/li><li><strong>Altitude of fall:<\/strong> 10,160 metres (33,333 feet)<\/li><li><strong>Recovery time:<\/strong> In coma 27 days; hospitalised 16 months<\/li><li><strong>Guinness record:<\/strong> Highest fall survived without a parachute &mdash; never broken<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The flight, the gap, the survival<\/h2>\n\n<p>JAT Flight 367 was at cruise altitude over the small Czech village of Srbsk&aacute; Kamenice when something detonated in the forward baggage hold. The official cause has never been definitively settled &mdash; theories range from a Croatian-Usta\u0161e bomb to an air-defence missile fired in error by a Czech anti-aircraft battery. The aircraft broke apart in mid-air. The forward fuselage section, with Vulovi\u0107 and the food trolley still inside, separated from the rest of the airframe and fell as a single intact piece into the snow-covered forest below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1788235687812939810&#038;theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The combination of factors that allowed her to live is what aviation forensics texts now describe as &ldquo;providential.&rdquo; First, she was in the tail section, where the structural deformation absorbed the impact rather than transmitting it directly to her body. Second, she was pinned between a trolley and a galley wall, which kept her body straight through the fall. Third, the fuselage struck a heavily snow-covered, steeply angled forest slope, which dissipated impact energy over hundreds of metres of contact rather than a single point. Fourth &mdash; and perhaps decisively &mdash; she had low blood pressure, which she had concealed from JAT medical examiners; her circulatory system did not rupture under the deceleration the way most people&rsquo;s would.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1767243513  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/jat-yugoslav-airlines-dc-9-32-yu-ahs-vesna-vulovic.jpg\" alt=\"A JAT McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 at Long Beach\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">YU-AHT was a JAT DC-9-32, one of fifteen the airline operated. The forward fuselage section of this aircraft, separated from the rest in mid-air, was where Vesna Vulovi\u0107 was found alive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The rescue and the long recovery<\/h2>\n\n<p>A Czech villager named Bruno Honke found her in the wreckage some thirty minutes after the crash. She was breathing but unconscious, with a fractured skull, three crushed vertebrae, broken legs, a fractured pelvis, and several broken ribs. Honke &mdash; who had served as a medic in the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War &mdash; kept her alive in the snow until rescue arrived.<\/p>\n\n<p>She woke from her coma 27 days later in a Prague hospital. Her first question, on regaining lucidity, was whether she could have a cigarette.<\/p>\n\n<p>Vesna spent sixteen months in hospital and rehabilitation. She had no memory of the flight, the explosion, or the fall. Her doctors believed this was probably a protective mechanism &mdash; what neurologists now call dissociative amnesia. She regained the ability to walk. She returned to work at JAT a year and a half after the crash, though never again as cabin crew &mdash; she was assigned to a negotiating job at the airline&rsquo;s headquarters in Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;I am the only one who is happy to be alive. The others were happy because they were no longer in the wreckage. I am happy because every morning I wake up and remember that I am alive.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Vesna Vulovi\u0107<\/strong> &mdash; In a 2008 interview with The New York Times<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A life after the fall<\/h2>\n\n<p>Vesna became, instantly, a national hero in Yugoslavia &mdash; a country that did not have many female celebrities and had not had many cheerful stories in 1972. She became a fierce campaigner against the Milo\u0161evi\u0107 regime in the 1990s, was beaten up at an anti-government rally in 1993, and refused throughout her life to be flown anywhere for the rest of her career. She took the train. She refused to be flown to Guinness World Records ceremonies in London on principle.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Guinness record &mdash; &#8220;the highest fall survived without a parachute&#8221; &mdash; has stood for more than half a century. There have been later, lower-altitude survivals from aircraft accidents (Juliane Koepcke, peruvians who fell from low altitudes through jungle canopy in 1971), but no one has ever come close to Vulovi\u0107&rsquo;s 10,160 metres.<\/p>\n\n<p>She died of natural causes in December 2016, aged 66, in her apartment in Belgrade. Her funeral was attended by aviation historians, journalists, former JAT colleagues, and a handful of Czech relatives of Bruno Honke, who had stayed in touch with her family for the rest of her life. The Belgrade aviation museum keeps a small permanent exhibition about her. Her name is still in the Guinness book. Nobody is expected to take it from her.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#888;font-style:italic;margin-top:24px\">Sources: The New York Times, Guinness World Records, BBC Witness History, The Independent obituary (December 2016), Aviation Safety Network.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-pilot-half-sucked-out-of-his-cockpit-at-17300-feet-who-survived\/\">The Pilot Half-Sucked Out of His Cockpit at 17,300 Feet &mdash; Who Survived<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 January 1972, a 22-year-old Yugoslav flight attendant named Vesna Vulovi\u0107 was working a JAT DC-9 service from Stockholm to Belgrade via Copenhagen. She had only joined the airline a few months earlier. She had been assigned to the flight by mistake &mdash; the airline had confused her with another stewardess of the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1246941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness's most enduring record. The full story.","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-legends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness&#039;s most enduring record. The full story.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness&#039;s most enduring record. The full story.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MiGFlug.com Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1002\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tamika Johnson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tamika Johnson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tamika Johnson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db\"},\"headline\":\"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":887,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\/\\/migflug.com\\/jetflights\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/sites\\/4\\/2026\\/05\\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"History &amp; Legends\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/\",\"name\":\"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\/\\/migflug.com\\/jetflights\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/sites\\/4\\/2026\\/05\\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db\"},\"description\":\"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness's most enduring record. The full story.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/migflug.com\\/jetflights\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/sites\\/4\\/2026\\/05\\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\/\\/migflug.com\\/jetflights\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/sites\\/4\\/2026\\/05\\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1002},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/\",\"name\":\"MiGFlug.com Blog\",\"description\":\"for those interested in flying military jets and aviation related  topics\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db\",\"name\":\"Tamika Johnson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tamika Johnson\"},\"description\":\"Tamika finds the human story behind every headline. A political science graduate with a passion for aviation history, she writes about the people who shaped the skies \u2014 from the Night Witches to modern-day female fighter pilots. Her pieces read like narrative journalism: vivid, emotional, and impossible to put down.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/migflug.com\\\/jetflights\\\/author\\\/tamikajohnson\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug","description":"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness's most enduring record. The full story.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug","og_description":"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness's most enduring record. The full story.","og_url":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/","og_site_name":"MiGFlug.com Blog","article_published_time":"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":1002,"url":"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Tamika Johnson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tamika Johnson","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/"},"author":{"name":"Tamika Johnson","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/#\/schema\/person\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db"},"headline":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived","datePublished":"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/"},"wordCount":887,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg","articleSection":["History &amp; Legends"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/","url":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/","name":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: Fell 10,160 m and Survived | MiGFlug","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg","datePublished":"2026-05-26T12:20:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-26T13:34:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/#\/schema\/person\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db"},"description":"A 22-year-old Yugoslav stewardess fell 10,160 metres from a DC-9 in 1972. Guinness's most enduring record. The full story.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:Vzcm.be46\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/vesna-vulovic-1973-survived-10160-meter-fall-jat-367.jpg","width":1280,"height":1002},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/vesna-vulovic-stewardess-fell-10160-metres-jat-367-survived\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vesna Vulovi\u0107: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/#website","url":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/","name":"MiGFlug.com Blog","description":"for those interested in flying military jets and aviation related  topics","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/#\/schema\/person\/a3b0f1b2c017dca146d1474d88a7f2db","name":"Tamika Johnson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0aec3158aff3d47ac0cba1da9c62fe9994a454e4e6a14b6260de35a598abdb4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tamika Johnson"},"description":"Tamika finds the human story behind every headline. A political science graduate with a passion for aviation history, she writes about the people who shaped the skies \u2014 from the Night Witches to modern-day female fighter pilots. Her pieces read like narrative journalism: vivid, emotional, and impossible to put down.","url":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/author\/tamikajohnson\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247001,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246998\/revisions\/1247001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}