Vesna Vulovic A Women Who Cheated Death — Transcript

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1. 0:00the woman who holds the world record
2. 0:01according to the Guinness Book of
3. 0:03Records for surviving the highest fall
4. 0:06without a parachute vesna vulovic the
5. 0:09sniffle OB was born on january 3rd 1950
6. 0:12she was a serbian former flight
7. 0:15attendant on january 26 1972 an
8. 0:19explosion on j8e flight 367 while over
9. 0:23SRBs k commenced in czechoslovakia now
10. 0:26in the czech republic caused the plane
11. 0:28to break apart below v-22 years old at
12. 0:32the time was a flight attendant on board
13. 0:34she was not scheduled to be on that
14. 0:37flight she had been mixed up with
15. 0:39another female flight attendant who was
16. 0:42also named Vesna the official report of
17. 0:44the Czechoslovak Investigation
18. 0:46Commission that was handed over to the
19. 0:48ICAO on May 7 1974 stated that there had
20. 0:52been an explosion in the front baggage
21. 0:54compartment of the plane the
22. 0:57Czechoslovak Secret Service Street and
23. 0:59best nost which was leading the
24. 1:01investigation presented
25. 1:02parts of an alarm clock ten days after
26. 1:05the crash which they claimed came from a
27. 1:07bomb the report concluded that the
28. 1:09explosion was the result of a bomb on
29. 1:11the morning of January 27 1972 an
30. 1:15anonymous man called the newspaper K
31. 1:18Vilas Poston coalition mom Sweden
32. 1:20claiming in broken Swedish that he was a
33. 1:23Croat and member of a nationalist group
34. 1:26that placed the bomb on the plane apart
35. 1:28from this no further evidence was ever
36. 1:31found that established that the bombing
37. 1:33was a terrorist attack nevertheless
38. 1:35shortly after the phone call the
39. 1:38Yugoslav government blamed the us tooi
40. 1:40according to the official report the
41. 1:43explosion tore the MC Donald Douglas dc9
42. 1:46-32 to pieces in midair and ve'lo he was
43. 1:49the only survivor below v fell
44. 1:52approximately 10,000 160 meters 33
45. 1:55thousand three hundred thirty feet she
46. 1:58suffered a fractured skull three broken
47. 2:00vertebrae one crushed completely that
48. 2:03left her temporarily paralyzed from the
49. 2:05waist down and two broken legs she
50. 2:08was in a coma for 27 days
51. 2:11in an interview she commented that
52. 2:13according to Bruno Hank the man who
53. 2:16found her I was in the middle part of
54. 2:18the plane I was found with my head down
55. 2:21and my colleague on top of me one part
56. 2:24of my body with my leg was in the plane
57. 2:26and my head was out of the plane a
58. 2:28catering trolley was pinned against my
59. 2:31spine and kept me in the plane the man
60. 2:34who found me says I was very lucky he
61. 2:37was in the German army as a medic during
62. 2:39world war ii he knew how to treat me at
63. 2:42the site of the accident she holds the
64. 2:45world record according to the guinness
65. 2:47book of records for surviving the
66. 2:49highest fall without a parachute 10,000
67. 2:52160 meters thirty three thousand three
68. 2:54hundred thirty feet