US EditionAirplane Exploded Mid-Flight and Sent a Flight Attendant Flying 33,333 Feet Down — but a Food Trolley Became Her Savior
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Airplane exploded mid-flight and sent a flight attendant flying 33,333 feet down — but a food trolley became her savior
When an airplane ripped apart mid-air, all passengers onboard died instantly, except for one flight attendant, Vesna Vulović. She became a miracle who survived a bomb blast and a deadly fall, and lived for another four decades to tell the tale. On Jan. 26, 1972, JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was on its way from Copenhagen to Belgrade when a briefcase bomb, planted by a Croatian separatist group, exploded. The DC-9 aircraft was over Czechoslov…
On Thursday, October 30, 1975, one of the greatest aviation tragedies in Czechoslovak history took place in the morning hours in Suchdol, Prague. A Yugoslav DC-9 airliner heading from the Yugoslav holiday resort of Tivat to Ruzyně Airport crashed in thick fog into a steep slope above a gardener's colony. It was full of people returning from a vacation in the Yugoslav hotel Plavi horizont to Prague. 50 years since the tragedy "Almost 500 people w…
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