1972

Event dated 26 January 1972

The Miraculous Flight and Survival of Vesna Vulović

What happened

Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulović achieved an impossible medical survival after a terrorist bomb tore through JAT Flight 367 over Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. Trapped inside a severed piece of the fuselage by a food cart, she plummeted from a staggering altitude of 33,330 feet into a heavily snow-covered, wooded mountainside. She survived the terrifying impact with a fractured skull and temporary paralysis, earning the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute.

Literary impact

Vulović's incredible survival against absolute physical impossibility became a massive cultural touchstone across Eastern Europe. Her story inspired numerous avant-garde poems and experimental literary works that explored the deep themes of human fragility, fate, and the terrifying nature of modern geopolitical terrorism.

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Poets alive in 1972

14 poets

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