Stewardess survived a 33,000 ft freefall - JAT367
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- JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying NDB Hermsdorf, East Germany, while en route from Stockholm to Belgrade on 26 January 1972. The aircraft broke into three pieces and spun out of control, crashing near the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Of the 28 on board, 27 were killed upon ground impact and one Yugoslav crew member, Vesna Vulović, survived. She holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 10,160 m (33,330 ft).
Source: Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Federal Ministry of Transport final report
Simulator: X-Plane 11
Aircraft: DC-9 32 from X-Plane.org
Scenery: FlyTampa Copenhagen - Věda a technologie
My granddad missed this flight by 12 minutes. Sometimes not being on time can save your life, so don't ever worry if you're late!
It can also have the opposite effect 🤣 what a stupid thing to say
@@mikeoxlong3473 he did say sometimes. And it aint stupid
@@mirrorsmirage7534 Except it is a stupid statement. It’s like saying sometimes you flip a coin and you get tails. Other times it’s heads…It’s a nothing statement.
True❤️
@@mirrorsmirage7534 exactly. Mike isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer but hopefully maturation will help that problem.
She's not the only one this has happened to. Juliane Koepcke was 17 years old at the time and her story is just as remarkable except that when her plane exploded she was blown out of the aircraft while still strapped to her seat. She landed in the forest with only MINOR injuries! Yes, she literally walked away! Research her name to see how amazing her story is.
She had the seat,she just jump up out of it right before hitting the ground
Juliane koepcke
@@andrewp7509 that wouldn't do anything? the seat would have cushioned her fall? how can she time the jump? did she unstrap herself? how does she see the ground? those seats have a center of gravity that would pull her back and her vision towards the sky. doesn't sound plausible. she likely was cushioned by the seat cushions and the seat itself too a lot of the damage of impact
@@cagneybillingsley2165 no ,you jump off the chair just before impact,ipso facto your standing
@@andrewp7509 she'd still be travelling at about 120mph when she hits the ground whether she's in the chair or not
It's downright unbelievable she survived that fall assuming she hit the ground at terminal velocity of 120mph. Incredible!
Incorrect! terminal velocity speed for a parachutist that hasn't opened his chute is 150 mph.
@@saxon1177 I was just going by what can be expected. Of course, the parachutists has much less drag, thus fall faster. It can reach upwards in the 150-200mph. It just depends upon the weight of the object, drag, and etc.
@@michaelcoughlin3013 you have zero clue what you’re talking about. Terminal velocity is the most overused and misunderstood term. It’s a favorite term of people that think they understand basic concepts of science.
Terminal velocity is drag and mass. You don’t have a clue what the drag or mass is. A falling torpedo full of people, fuel, and luggage, with an open front, will not have a terminal velocity anywhere remotely close to 120mph. It also depends if it was spinning out of control or acted like a dart.
If it was a dart it would have probably reached 900mph. If it was spinning out of control probably 200mph.
120mph is a laughable guess. For your own sake, stop using the term “terminal velocity.” You’re only embarrassing yourself. It has almost no use for any real scientific calculations outside of objects with static aerodynamic resistance.
@@saxon1177 terminal velocity of a parachutist in 200km/h or 55m/s. If you lose control and start spinning, there doesn't exist such term as "terminal velocity" anymore. You fall way faster
@@michaelcoughlin3013 Of course with 120 mph being the minimum, I agree, it varies on the circumstances.
Now there's a Guinness record no one will try to break.
You sure? Wait until it becomes a tik tok challenge 😂
@@henryt9731 Say no more
Hay hay!!!Nice
@@henryt9731 good luck to them with that. They'll either break the record or get BROKEN by the record.
@@henryt9731 yea, good, need to provoke people, there are stupid people on the planet.
To put her fall in perspective, falling this far is like falling off the top of Mount Everest, then falling the height of a 400 story building
And the record will hopefully never be broken, the person I doubt would be so lucky!
Once terminal velocity is reached, 200 mph is 200 mph
@@davidferrara1105 exactly.
Damn, too bad she didn't have any tunes to listen to on the way down
@@davidferrara1105 maybe so but it took her about 1 minute and 40 seconds to hit the ground. That's a lot of time to think, wow, I'm going to die.....
As an aviation enthusiast, I've known about this incident for decades, but have never see a video with as much information about Vesna Vulović and her story of the crash as in this presentation. This video was recommended to me by CZcams, or I may never have seen it. In spite of the artificial voice and rough CGI, I was really impressed with the quality of the information and with the photographs from the accident scene, which I have never seen before. I had always thought Vesna was pinned in the tail of the plane by the service cart, but the fact she was closer to the middle of the fuselage makes it even more amazing. Keep up the good work! You should have more subscribers than you do.
@@aviationinvestigationchannel Just a few helpful hints. They were not meant to be negative. Building a channel is a lot of very hard work and this topic is really popular right now. I can see this channel becoming big. I really like how you have some of the lesser known accidents.
Its a flight sim.
Me too, I never knew if it was for real or not.
The computer voice is the killer please just narrate it
@@aviationinvestigationchannel if you need some actual voiceover instead of the speech synth lets chat! I am also a motion graphics artist.
Overall the video was well done, just need to tweak and improve a few things.
During the second WW one Lancaster bomber crewman survived a 18,000 ft fall without a parachute into deep snow and the German Gestapo who interrogated him were so impressed they presented him with a certificate to confirm that they had investigated and found his parachute unused in the wreck. Another B17 crewman fell 20,000 feet without a parachute and crashed through the roof of a German railway station and survived too. At least one other such case took place where a crewman of a British bomber crawled out onto a wing to extinguish an engine fire, fell off and survived a long fall into deep snow, I think he was a flight sergeant and was awarded the VC.
A world war 2 combat medic within the immediate area of the crash… synchronicity? 🤔
I’ll bet her perspective on life and death has a huge paradigm shift.
Mine did. I didn’t fall from 30k feet but I overdosed on meth. Had a heart attack. Had multiple organ failure. Was in a coma for 12 days with a 108 degree temperature for an extended period of time which created a high probability of severe brain damage. Oh and my right leg got cut off because of an infection after I woke up.
Been clean ever since then 2018. Learned my lesson!
🙏
God wanted you to live for a reason . Hope you have fulfilled His benevolence .
God bless you. Fulfill His mission, bro 🙏
I’m glad ur clean bro
Damn bro wtf lol
She's long dead, so it's impossible for her to now have a paradigm shift. She died at the age of 66, 44 years after the alleged crash survival.
JAT had good reasons for not putting her back on the flights. I remember she was as famous as it gets back in Yugoslavia days. A living legend.
Her survival wasn't a record, it was a miracle
Both 🙄
This reminded me of reading about one of the RAF crew members that fell out of a bomber under the darkness during WW2, falling toward the ground and without a parachute, he passed out cos he feared this is it. He came around from unconsciousness to find himself in stillness, it was so cold he thought that's what it was like being dead and then realised he was deep in snow. He hit on the slope of the mountain high up and with the help of the snow, slowed the speed of his fall until to a stop at the bottom.
I think the rest of the bomber crew didn't survive.
I remember that too - tail gunner of a Lancaster. The guys name was Alkemade, I think. The Germans didn't believe him until they found his charred parachute still stowed in its' position in the wreck of his Lancaster. Unfortunately, you're correct - none of the other crew survived.
@Ti m
Thank you, you have confirmed that my memory's nearly exact!! It was the Tail Gunner of the stricken Lancaster he fell 18,000ft !! I was in the RAF base when I read it so long ago now. 😉👌 and my real name's Tim 😄
His full name's Nicholas Stephen Alkemade
and found his story on Wikipedia ...
Link below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade?wprov=sfla1
@@StormyWolf66 Glad to be of assistance!! (Yep! Tim is a great name!!) 👍
It’s safe to say with 100% certainty that this world record will never be broken.
I can say with 100% certainty I call bullshit on this story.
Sorry Masonic Guinness book of world records isn’t proof enough.
99.999%, there will always be a possibility
But the person trying to do that will be broken *badumtsss*
Nimueh, your statement is completely illogical. You certainly cannot say with 100% certainty it will never happen again. It happened once therefore absolutely could happen again.
Hard telling not knowing
And she still wanted to fly regularly. What a badass!🦾🦾🦾
Had she been obese she'd have popped like a balloon. 😁
@@aviationinvestigationchannel Good for her that she didn´t remember anything. Crashing in a plane is one of my biggest fears just for the reason to witness 100 people with fear of certain death in one cabin. What a nightmare.
I read the minute she woke up she asked for a cigarette. BADASS RIP Vesna
Addiction and stress! It´s not so far-fetched as it may seem.
You can see she’s got a cigarette in her hand in one of the pictures
whether you fall from 33,000 ft or 1.500 ft you drop at same max speed . There was a number of lucky people who survived due to trees, branches, etc
Ep = mgh
You probably aren't surviving either but at 33,000, you have 1 minute and 40 seconds to be terrified....
gravity causes an increase over time.. wind resistance also plays a factor as well as how your falling.. ever watch skydivers fly past one another becaues they induce a dive.. so yea you can go faster it just depends. But once you reach terminal velocity yup thats it.. Newtons first law correct?
Speed is the same, terminal velocity. At 33,000 feet there is very little oxygen and much colder, 90ºF colder (-30ºC+) than ground level.
@@melreslor2114 Doesn’t matter within the context of how long she was at such an altitude
Good work nice video, I don't mean for the tragic loss of life but the life of a survivor bless her now in heaven ❤️
🙄 "Now in "heaven""....always obvious when people don't bother to read the Bible.
Wow, amazingly freekish thing to happen, to survive the explosion then fall 33,000 feet and awake after impact, one very lucky women, and a record holder?
A 17-year-old woman named Juliane Koepcke was flying from Peru to her parents' biological reserve in the Amazon basin in 1971 with her mother, who was terrified of flying. The Lockheed L-188 Electra, LANSA Flight 508, entered severe storms in the middle of the flight and the plane was being violently shaken as it flew through the clouds at around 9,000 feet (3000 meters) in altitude. A particularly strong bolt of lightning hit one of the wings and the plane exploded. Koepcke survived the plane crash, after falling 3,000 meters while strapped to her seat. Juliane survived as her row of three seats spun around in mid-air and crashed through several levels of jungle canopy. She was the sole survivor, but in spite of moderately severe injuries and losing her glasses, she used her rainforest survival training and spent 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest searching for a way out. She had been taught to follow the nearest stream to a larger stream and keep doing that until she finally arrived at a farmer's home, where she was then rescued and reunited with her father. Her mother perished in the crash.
@@aviationinvestigationchannel Surviving a fall from 500 feet is impressive (50 story building). Surviving a fall from 33,000 feet? She is a super woman!
How did you get the front of the plane to break off in XPlane?
What an incredible story!!
WOW THE TORSIONAL AND SHEAR FORCES ON HER BODY EXCEEDED THAT IN MOST PARTS OF THE PLANE ITSELF! That in itself was unbelievable!
From Wikipedia: "In 2009, two Prague-based journalists, claimed that Flight 367 had been mistaken for an enemy aircraft and shot down by the Czechoslovak Air Force at an altitude of 800 metres (2,600 ft), far lower than the official altitude of 10,160 metres (33,330 ft). The two claimed that the Czechoslovak State Security had conjured up Vulović's record fall as part of a cover-up"
Commies. I'm not surprised.
I love aviation accident investigations!
great video
Aircraft are marvels of human ingenuity, and those who fly them are typically dedicated and well-trained., But this video shows that some events are impossible to recover from. A very sad and unfortunate incident in this video.
She was lucky that the bomb was placed so far to the front. The airplane did not fell like a stone which would have happened when the wings got ripped off by the bomb, but it fell more like a leaf in the autumn wind. Well - not that soft of course, otherwise everyone would have survived, but the terminal velocity is slower with wings than having only the airplane hull without wings falling. Oh and I am going to watch this Mythbusters episode tonight, thanks for mentioning it!
These pilots did not know what had hit them and what happened to the plane (or to be more precise that the rest of the plane is no longer attached to their cockpit) and probably tried to pull back and stabilize by pure instinct until their lights went out, both were found with their hands still clinching the yoke....
@@aviationinvestigationchannel she waas in the tael of the airecraft the tael sephareydet from aircraft. And she wass spining to the ground and that spining absorrb the faling and save her liffe......sorry for my spelingss
@@jasminbuilder I accept your apology.👍
Did the front of the plane come completely off as you show in the animation?
You said the pilots were found in the cockpit. Did it land in a different location from the main part of the fuselage?
Also, if the cockpit did come off completely, wouldn't the plane flip directions due to the center of gravity moving aft?
3:37 The good old days when we still smoked in our hospital beds!
In Yugoslavia until early 80s smoking in plane was also allowed
So the pilots were found with their hands still on the controls. I wonder if either or both of them realized that they were separated from the rest of the plane, and that truly their situation was hopeless...
Thats wild how did you find that out ?
Depending on where exactly the airplane got split, and if the door to the cockpit was closed, then yes... there's a very good chance that they didn't realise that they got separated from the rest, specially if you consider that they only had very little time before crashing... and I think that they lost consciousness before hitting the ground.
@@bosmanebeezy9788 it mentions that in this video
@@User-jr7vf why lost consciousness
@@solidfuel0 because they were subjected to extreme forces during their fall
That she was able to live a relatively normal life after enduring such Horror is beyond my Imagination....
and meet Paul as well!
Beautiful but tragic tale
That is an incredible story!!! Thank you
May god keep blessing you dear lady angel wings over you sweetie... You are an earth angel 😇 ...
I like that little trick that you used to make the plane look broken
I’ll bet no one was conscious for long after explosive decompression at 35,000 feet.
@Mike Collon Hypoxia becomes a risk above 14,000 feet. So once below that altitude, people could potentially resume consciousness before hitting the ground.
i love thes Sim komparisations !
A sad final ending of her life at just 66 years old but we will never forget this remarkable lady. RIP Vesna
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović
Very interesting, but is sad to see the poor quality of X-Plane compared to state-of-the-art MSFS 2020. Thank you
the stewardess has never gave the statement of what has happend and the cause of accident was mystery and still is for the public, but pilots of the company had immediately known that the aircraft has been shot by the rocket, as it passed over the area of military excersize and was hit by mistake as the civil aircraft has not to be expected in the training zone.
Sami Ime that is what happened to TWA flight 800 July 17, 1996
innvestigation shows that it was a fire in the tank, but the case may be similar to flight 712.
@@samoime1955 not true we were hit my friendly fire ,.the truth is being covered up now 26 years later
And more law suits now I am personally involved and know this as fact..you cannot believe what you always
Hear on the news..
the same is here it was always pushed the theory of the bomb that was not what had happend, as mistaken hit by the missle has been covered up. Stewardess probably has known and that was the reason she never gave public interview, but asked them to leave her alone.
Do u know how long it takes for ntsb come.back with a final.report after a fatal crash?
1:27 so, which is it. hotel-tango or hotel-mike ?
Beautiful soul
Supposedly this incident was behind the chorus in the song "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty.
Yeah God was looking out for her that day
Yea fuck the 27 others that he didn’t look out for….. what an evil ass comment.I’m sure the families of the dead will love to know your god cared to save one of them with broken bones and a coma and all and said fuck u to the others. I’m sure some were children too.
Sweet I’ve been looking for record’s to brake!
8 words...two mis-spellings. Great.
@@danstrayer111 *records (no plural) and *break -- not the end of the world 🙄
goodluck. We are rooting for you
She is blessed
the most grusome thing of this story is that guinnes book of records give a price to this deadly event !!
Hmmm, sorry I disagree. This flight attendandant was protected by the plane - that is not free fall. I think the free fall recod should be attributed to 'Nicholas Stephen Alkemade' a british gunner in WW2.
Weird that "the pilots tried everything to save the life of the passengers" but they weren't even attached to the plane anymore hehehe
That dreaded feeling when you can see your own body and it’s missing it’s head, because you are the head looking back at it OH S##T!
I don't think that its something to celebrate and put on a show when so many died horrifically, she didn't exactly come of without a scratch.
I think you're right. Either your phone or mine is listening...cause this just came up in my feed..
She is a legend!
How low blood pressure is related? You didn't explain
I love the picture of her in the hospital smoking a cigarette!
Smoking in planes, hospitals, grocery stores, malls and theaters used to be incredibly common. Doctors were used in early television ads for cigarettes to "imply" that they were "safe". I was in the hospital in 1979 for a burst appendix for a week and the nurses bought me cigarettes and emptied my ashtray for me daily. Smoking was eventually banned in public places in stages. First in airplanes and hospitals, then just about everywhere else by the new millennium. Smoking may be nasty habit, but we also lived in a much more free society not so long ago.
One record no one wants to beat into the Guinness Book of Records.
Me: I survived an impacted wisdom tooth.
Vesna Vulovic: I survived an airplane explosion and fell 33,000 feet without a parachute.
I remember having a infected wisdom tooth coming in under my back tooth pushing it up and how excruciating the pain got before I could get in for surgery to have it busted up and cut out. I literally was rolling around my living room floor eating the vicodin the gave me like candy with no effect so I just kept taking them until my wife took them from me worried I was gonna O.D. Swelling started going down next day and 2 days later got top 2 teeth pulled and bottom 2 cut out. Bottom 2 both got dry socket and that was just as painfull so I had to go get these novacane strips packed into the holes and changed every morning for a week. I've broke a few bones over the years and none came even close to pain I went thru with my wisdom teeth
@@jackharrington3711 yeah, infected wisdom teeth are no fun to deal with.
I only had three of my wisdom teeth form and they were all impacted. They had to be pulled. But because of their impaction angle, my oral surgeon determined to also extract the three teeth that the wisdom teeth had pushed out of about ⅕ of their sockets and were also infected. I ended up being on a strict liquid consistency diet for the near two months prior to extractions (my insurance was fucking stupid and actually tried saying that they would have rather paid for the care of me becoming spetic than pay for the 6 needed extractions until my primary care provider, my regular dentist and oral surgeon reminded them that the extractions at most would be $4,000 while the care to treat someone who became septic is well over $100,000 if I even survived it WITHOUT organ complications and that I would STILL need the 6 teeth causing the sepsis removed; needless to say, they quickly relented) and another 3 weeks after the extractions due to the amount of trauma from the infection points. Oh, and not only was vicodin a new part of my "diet" but straight Tylenol, motrin, aleve, various forms of benzocaine and multiple antibiotics also became a part of my temporary "diet" along with twice daily trips to the dentist for shots of novocaine to help with the amount of pain that I was dealing with.
How do you get the record when you are inside an airplane? I know it was damaged but she was still inside a plane. Wouldn’t the Astronauts be the record holder if you can be inside a vehicle????
wtf? Incredible story.
*spoiler alert* She jumped right before she hit the ground.
it fall vertically, there is some air turbulance in the fuselage that somehow slow her speed in the crash with earth,
that's it.
im
psychic, i can go flashback to past time.
:)
Nobody mentioned snow.
Lots of it so partly that helped to some degree.
Thank you for this video, I watch the Airplane Crash Investigations series, but they never covered this. There were some conspiracy theories that Soviets downed the plane and this was all a cover up, but not sure this is a plausible scenario.
Skip to 7:23 to hear why she survived
Were the pilots hands really still on the controls in the wreckage? I seriously doubt it.
Let’s mention the WWII bomber and the girl that survived the plane crash in South America instead of anything about this case!
Holy crap
I think the robot narrator was incorrect to state that the pilots, who were likely unconscious and falling in the detached nose section of the plane, "tried to save the plane and its occupants to the very end".
I survived SIDS when I was little.
De planing does that mean disembarking. ?
When Czechoslovakia open their archive we found real truth
Wow!
You can't be a flight attendant with low blood pressure? You learn something new everyday.
"She left us...." Just say she died, for snark's sake! What are people so afraid of when it comes to simple words that say precisely what needs to be said?????
what about the guy that dropped from the edge of space?
It is absolutely incredible what happens when all the laws of physics are on your side lol
An Indonesian stewardess also survived a plane crash years ago.
How did all of the other passengers “freefall out of the plane and land on the ground…”?
Wouldn’t they have been strapped into their seatbelts??
Incident was different. Plane was shot down by missile because it was in a line with Soviet president airplane. Airplane was infromed to change route by MiG plane and they go down. But rocket was launched from ground. When rocket hit the plane it was about 15000 ft
God Rest all of the Souls of the Good Human Beings who lost their Earthly lifes Amen xxxxxxx Home To Heaven Amen xxxxxxx With Our Ever Growing Ever Loveing Heavenly Family Amen xxxxxxx
@YT Censors another fallen soul of to the Heaven and hell portal on their D day Good Bye YT censors
It’s minus 20 degrees and your traveling at 600 mph. Imagine being minus 20 degrees with a wind speed outside of 20 mph?
The pilots hands were still on the controls trying to regain control of the plane, I guess in a situation like this no one had time to look behind them to see there is no more plane but the cockpit.
That's nothing. I've been in free fall for 20 years
I hear a scheduled flight in all videos. Are there non scheduled flights? if they are so rare, maybe no need to even say that it was scheduled fligth and tell that it is not scheduled when it is?
Wow! Unbelievable! Is this some kind of miracle?
Yeah Jesus christ was not ready to take her just yet
@@jasonmurdoch9936 rofl. Sure. But took her at the young age of 66? Said fu to the 27 others too. I bet some were children too.
The horror when the pilots realise their aircraft has been decapitated and all controls have been lost, leaving just a head with no body.
19 victims fell to their deaths. We should not be celebrating anything in terrorism
What do you mean
God was with her 🙏🙏
The plane explodes and 27 people die a horrible death and that's what you take from this? Surviving is great but not falling in a broken plane 33,000 feet to end up almost dead would have been way way better. It seems like God should not have caused this crash in the first place.
Spare me, you are delusional with that religious horse sh*t.
I wonder why god chose her to survive but killed the rest of the people?? Were all the unlucky people so bad?? Just another 'god' piece of made up stupidity.
@@rectorsquid absoulute fool as if God caused the crash unbelievable how thick you fallen souless people are. The devil caused the crash he likes to think he is a God but he isint
@Alex Perez Good luck on your D day.
She shouldn't of even been on that flight. It should of been another stewardess of the same name!
‘No arrests have never been made’? Who edits your copy?
Soo..... it WASN'T an accident.... 😞
Pardon the pun…. She went down in history lol
First comment. Incredible story!
Physic has left the chat
A Serbian stewardess survives the fall above the place named Serbian Kamenica in Czechoslovakia.
The same thing happened to a 17 year old girl. She fell into trees in a jungle and they broke her fall, she was the lone survivor…
@@jambo7348 why doesn’t that surprise me 🤦🏻♀️
We know, we know, can you let THIS story exist without mentioning that story?
But that wasn’t from a very high altitude and also she had her dear attached to her and when she fell on the trees the dear protected her
did I hear wrong - the one who was guilty was not arrested?
W. O. W. !
I don’t believe that’s a record anyone wants to break.
I don't believe she actually 'fell' though, she was inside a plane. That is not a freefall.
Copenhagen is misspelled at the start of the video.
It goes to say. If it’s not your time to go it ain’t your time to go
This reminds me of that king of 4he hill episode where he and Peggy went sky diving but her parachute didn't work so she fell into some mud.