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0:00Wakurugenzi,
0:01during the Second World War,
0:03the Germans and the Soviet Union were always at loggerheads.
0:08That was when Russia together with other 15 countries,
0:12were reigning havoc in Europe.
0:16When they went to war,
0:19the Germans wondered a lot
0:20Because everytime they tried doing something,
0:24(flying bullet)
0:25a bullet, from nowhere.
0:27From nowhere!
0:28They came to discover that they were dealing with a professional sniper,
0:33from Ukraine,
0:36who was fighting for the Soviet Union
0:40Anytime you were trying to change your position
0:44you'd be shocked... (flying bullet)
0:47Is that Jonah from the Bible I just...
0:49Am I already here?
0:52You get straight into heaven.
0:53Straight!
0:56None of the 300 people saw it coming.
0:59Actually more than 300 people.
1:02They were just shocked they had gone to the Father.
1:05Turns out,
1:07the executioner,
1:08the super-sniper,
1:10the person that was taking them out left, right and center,
1:14was a lady from Ukraine.
1:16By the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
1:19AKA Lady Death.
1:23Believe it or not!
1:25They thought the war was for men,
1:26they were completely shocked
1:29The lady killed many of them.
1:31(flying bullets)
1:36Start the show.
1:38(flying bullet)
1:39♪ High on Heroines Theme Song ♪
2:10Wakurugenzi!
2:12Mah Mehn!
2:14If you can register the good vibes, you just know,
2:18It's another one by the ladies.
2:23High on Heroines One, Episode Nine.
2:25As usual...
2:27Anyway, Wadau are you good?
2:30The opener I did was to pamper Ukrainians,
2:36I hear they have had some problems
2:38So I decided to direct my story today to those sectors.
2:42Yes.
2:43But before we get to the story,
2:44We are in the same location, Sarova Panafric.
2:46A picturesque place to be,
2:50For accommodation, dishes, you name it.
2:53This is your home man.
2:55On Sundays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm,
2:58we have a spectacular brunch.
3:00Aa amazing brunch!
3:02If you find the time on Sunday, come through.
3:05Eat to your fill,
3:07If you can't go back home, you simply get a room.
3:11Yeah.
3:12And speaking of heroines,
3:13by the way,
3:14Sarova Panafric has a whole wing on the third floor,
3:17that pays homage
3:20to one of Kenya's greatest,
3:22a heroine by the name Professor Wangari Maathai.
3:25Let me tell you,
3:26this is an all female wing.
3:30It's an all female wing.
3:32I don't think there's a hotel in East and Central Africa,
3:35that has an all female wing apart from Sarova Panafric.
3:39So if you want a place to chill with your friends,
3:43or you want to chill by yourself,
3:46this is the place to be.
3:48On the third floor they have an amazing wing called Wangari Maathai wing.
3:52Fire!
3:54Pay it a visit, it is a beautiful place.
3:56Right?
3:58Wadau, today I want us to take a walk,
4:01to a country I have never talked about ever since I started story telling.
4:05The name of this country is Yugoslavia.
4:08And as usual,
4:10I want to tell an aviation story,
4:13you know I really love matters aviation.
4:16But today's story is a great story.
4:22This one...
4:24In fact let me get started.
4:26I don't want to start on propaganda and stories.
4:29Now,
4:30in the year 1950,
4:33a girl was born
4:35in Yugoslavia, the capital city is called Belgrade.
4:39In Belgrade, a beatuful girl is born.
4:42The parents bring her up to a working age, 22 years.
4:49That is in 1972
4:511972...
4:54The girl's name is Vesna Vulovic
5:01Correct me if I have butchered her name.
5:05But Vesna decides if there's a career she wants,
5:09it's a career in aviation.
5:12I want to be a flight attendant
5:14To fly people from point A to point B and feel good.
5:17The second reason why Vesna wants this job,
5:20is because she wants to help people
5:22you know the parents were not financially well off.
5:26She was sure that the earlier she got working,
5:29the better, because she could help out at home.
5:33But there was a problem.
5:36Vesna really wanted to work in aviation.
5:39Miss Vulovic.
5:41But there was a problem, because Vesna had a health problem,
5:48her blood pressure was very low.
5:50And you know if your blood pressure is low,
5:53there are careers that are very risky for you.
5:55Aviation being one of them.
5:57So when she was preparing herself to go for an interview,
6:00they knew her blood pressure would cause problems.
6:03Her parents asked,
6:05Vesna, you know you are stuck on the aviation career
6:08but,
6:09are you sure you'll pass the interview?
6:11Because they will test you.
6:13And when they see your blood pressure is low, that's a problem,
6:15you'll have lost that job.
6:17She said, "I have volunteered to help you as my parents.
6:21I will do anything to ensure I pass the interview."
6:26So on the day of the interview,
6:28Vesna is very smart.
6:31She knew if there's something that rises someones blood pressure,
6:35it's boyfriends and coffee.
6:38(laughing)
6:39She doesn't have a boyfriend, what's left is coffee.
6:44Actually, there are three things, boyfriends, coffee and Arsenal
6:47But at the time Arsenal wasn't losing and she didn't have a boyfriend,
6:51coffee is the only thing left.
6:53She took several glasses of coffee
6:56before she went for the interview
6:57so that the blood pressure rises.
7:00So that when she's tested
7:01the blood pressure will be normal
7:04because normally, it's very low.
7:07So she took her coffee,
7:09and she went for the interview.
7:10She was asked, "Before we test you, is there anything you want to tell us?
7:14Are there any diseases and the like you'd lie us to know?
7:18Before we take you to the doctor for testing?"
7:20She said, "An illness? Me sick?
7:24There's no such thing
7:25I haven't even had the flu in the last couple of years.
7:28Let's get me tested."
7:29Sh went in and got tested,
7:31the coffee had properly done it's job
7:34So when it raised her blood pressure,
7:36it made her blood pressure to be normal.
7:39They tested her and found that everything was right.
7:42And in 1972,
7:44she got employed in the National Carrier of Yugoslavia.
7:49I think the abbreviations for the Yugoslavian airlines is JAT.
7:54In a plane that's called Flight 367.
8:03She went there as a flight attendant.
8:06This is what we wanted.
8:09She does her job well...
8:12Wadau, did an year pass by?
8:17They say, if there is the safest mode of transport
8:23its airplane transport.
8:24In fact,
8:27you are 400 times more likely,
8:30to die on the way to the airport.
8:34As opposed to inside an actual plane
8:38The road to the airport will kill you,
8:40not the actual plane.
8:42The road, 400 times, 400% chance.
8:46Here is where you'll go to the afterlife.
8:49It got to a time when,
8:51she was at home relaxing.
8:53She knew, today, I should just be relaxing.
8:56But she soon gets a call,
8:58she is asked, "Vesna, where are you?
9:01Come, you should be at work."
9:02She wonders,
9:04Should I be at work today?
9:05She confirms on her timetable and sees,
9:08she sees she's not supposed to.
9:09But since they called for me.
9:11Let me go.
9:13So Vesna leaves home,
9:14she gets to the airport,
9:17(sighs)
9:18She survived the 400% chance.
9:20She didn't die there.
9:22She got to the airport.
9:25She quickly signed in
9:27She was told,
9:29Your plane is coming, when it arrives,
9:33you'll go with it back home to Yugoslavia
9:39She was in a place called Copenhagen,
9:43in Denmark
9:45You know those flight attendants are everywhere
9:48Today they are here, tomorrow they are here, tomorrow they are in Zagreb, Croatia.
9:53They are everywhere.
9:54So this plane,
9:56Is from Stockholm-Sweden
9:58all the way to Yugoslavia, what was the capital?
10:04What is the Capital of Yugoslavia?
10:08Belgrade
10:09I said it when we started, Belgrade.
10:10It should come from Stockholm Sweden,
10:13to Belgrade Yugoslavia.
10:15But it was to make two stop overs,
10:17There's one stop in Copenhagen, Denmark
10:21and the second stop over in Zagreb Ukraine.
10:25No, Zagreb Croatia.
10:28So,
10:30This lady, Vesna
10:32is in Copenhagen, in the first stop over.
10:34Copenhagen
10:36So the plane should come from Stockholm
10:40It was to come to Copenhagen
10:42The crew to get off,
10:44Vesna's crew to come in.
10:46They'll fly the plane to Zagreb Croatia
10:49then to Belgrade Yugoslavia.
10:51Are we okay to that point?
10:53Very nice.
10:55So Vesna gets to the airport,
10:57She realizes there was a mistake.
11:01It was true, she wasn't supposed to be on that flight.
11:05There was another flight attendant,
11:07also called Vesna, who should be there.
11:10But it's too late to ask her to go back home
11:13Call the other Vesna to come, no.
11:15She decided to take that trip,
11:18Belgrade where we are going,
11:21that's home.
11:22My parents are in Belgrade,
11:23it's okay I'll go and greet them.
11:26It was okay.
11:27The crew that she should travel with is here.
11:32They are waiting
11:33for the plane to leave Stockholm,
11:35to come and land in Copenhagen
11:37The crew to get off, for them to come in
11:40For them to get to Zagreb then Belgrade.
11:44So after waiting for about an hour,
11:49they see the plane landing.
11:51So from where they are standing they can see the tarmac.
11:55They can see how the plane is landing,
11:57the plane arrives, it stops.
12:00the airstair comes out.
12:03people get off.
12:04But among the passengers,
12:07one looks visibly angry
12:09very angry.
12:10He is throwing his arms out of anger.
12:13I don't know what angered him, but the guy is not okay.
12:18And Vesna takes note,
12:19but that's the nature of passengers, no problem.
12:23All passengers deplane,
12:25A five member crew, Vesna, 2 other flight attendants, pilot and the co-pilot.
12:33They board the plane and so do the other passengers,
12:39and the plane takes off from Copenhagen,
12:41heading to Zagreb Croatia,
12:43After the Zagreb, Croatia stop-over,
12:46It would fly to Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
12:51Everyone is seated with their seat-belts on.
12:54Everything is set, they are waiting for push-back
12:56for the plane to go into the runway and fly away.
13:02It takes off well, goes to the run way safely
13:05it gets the take off clearance and takes off.
13:10Without any problems or challenges.
13:14The flight is fine.
13:15They get to the cruising altitude.
13:19Once they get to the cruising altitude,
13:20they switch off the seat-belt light.
13:23The hostess,
13:24"You want coffee or tea?"
13:27Trevor Noah said no matter the turbulence,
13:30The upper part doesn't shake, only the lower part.
13:34"What would you like to drink, coffee or tea?"
13:37They serve you tea in that turbulence
13:39They are good, they have mastered the work.
13:41So they get to the cruising altitude,
13:46they walk around with the trays,
13:47Carrying coffee or tea, coffee or juice.
13:50They walk until it gets to the 45th minute.
13:55The 45th minute...
13:58There starts some hold ups.
14:01It's like something is not okay.
14:04I don't know if it's a smell from somewhere,
14:07or something is burning, I'm not sure what it is.
14:10But of the 46th minute of the flight,
14:15boom!
14:16One hell of an explosion.
14:19So, there was a bomb in the cargo hold, right below.
14:23It blew up when the plane was 33,330 feet in the air.
14:28It split the plane into three parts,
14:32the cockpit, the mid section and the tail part.
14:35The whole plane had disintegrated
14:37When a plane disintegrates in that manner,
14:39the first thing that happens is de-pressurization.
14:41When depressurization happens,
14:44everyone there gets ejected
14:47(flying sounds)
14:48from the plane.
14:51Wadau,
14:52when people are being ejected, left right and center,
14:56since this plane blew up and it took a dive like this,
15:00the diving rate made the trolley, the coffee or tea one
15:06it went back and found Vesna standing
15:09it hit her and threw her to the back of the plane.
15:13So as the plane goes down,
15:15she is pinned by the trolley,
15:17The coffee or tea trolley,
15:19it has pinned her, she cannot go anywhere.
15:22The plane is completely depressurized.
15:24If she didn't have a heart condition,
15:28if her blood pressure was normal,
15:30at this point, all her blood vessels would have burst.
15:34But since her blood pressure was too low,
15:36it didn't rise to the level that her blood vessels would burst.
15:42So that saved her.
15:43Remember, she is 33,330 feet flying to the ground.
15:50Her colleagues had been flown out of the plane,
15:52no one had been left.
15:54It's just her and her trolley which had pinned her to the wall.
15:57Quickly approaching the ground.
15:59When they hit the ground, they meet a canopy of trees
16:02and on the ground, huge amounts of snow, I don't know how many feet.
16:08They came and cleared everything,
16:10(clearing sound)
16:11to the ground.
16:13And it was silent
16:16They had landed in the Croatian territory.
16:22They were on route to Zagreb.
16:25Everyone on that plane, died, gone!
16:29I don't know if the body parts were found.
16:32But in a small village, in Croatia,
16:36a man is at home and he hears a flying sound.
16:40Something fell in a bush close to the house.
16:44He goes out quickly to find a plane wreckage,
16:48That had fallen close to his home.
16:50After a while, he hears voices.
16:54♪Croatian girl♪
16:55Okay, he hears voices coming from the bush.
17:02He quickly runs there to find,
17:04a lady there in light blue uniform that attendants wear,
17:09and it was soaked in blood from head to toe.
17:12He asked himself, "My God,
17:14this person fell from an accident, is still alive and is screaming?"
17:19Luckily,
17:20this villager was not a plumber.
17:25He was not an electrician, no.
17:29This was a World War II veteran,
17:32and in the war he was a military doctor.
17:37So he had the know-how to keep this lady alive,
17:42until the paramedics arrive.
17:44So he quickly went there,
17:47acting quickly.
17:48Covering the wounds, stabilizing the lady
17:51ensuring she doesn't lose consciousness until the ambulance arrives.
17:56The ambulance quickly comes and gets in the trees.
18:00They arrived and found Vesna,
18:03they quickly put her on stretchers,
18:05they strapped her and put her in the ambulance.
18:08The went to hospital and tried their best to save Vesna.
18:12Upon investigation, they found that Vesna had fractured her skull,
18:18Vesna had broken several ribs,
18:20Vesna had shuttered her pelvis,
18:23Vesna had broken both her legs.
18:25She was in a bad condition.
18:29So immediately they got her to hospital, I don't think a day passed by,
18:32she went into a coma.
18:34She was in a coma for one month,
18:37But God is miraculous,
18:39the doctors kept trying with Vesna
18:42they sewed her everywhere and plastered her everywhere,
18:47even though she couldn't walk, she woke up.
18:51So when she woke up,
18:53people came and tried to ask her some questions.
18:56What might have happened?
18:58unfortunately Vesna had no memory
19:01of anything that happened from the passenger boarding the plane,
19:06to the time she woke up
19:09She couldn't remember anything that happened in the middle
19:12She couldn't remember the bomb explosion,
19:14she couldn't remember falling from 33,330 feet.
19:19She couldn't remember being saved by the military doctor in the forest.
19:25She only remembered before the passengers boarded
19:28and now when she woke up.
19:31But they slowly worked with her
19:35she slowly got better, then she remembered,
19:38wait a minute.
19:40Before the plane arrived,
19:45the crew that was to leave,
19:48for us to come in and take over this journey,
19:51from Copenhagen to Zagreb.
19:56Someone came out very angry.
20:01I suspect this person is the start of all these fracas.
20:07Because when he got in he had a briefcase,
20:11and it was placed in the cargo and he got out without it.
20:14I think that's the story that was going about at the time, I'm not sure.
20:19But she remembers clearly there was a man who was very upset.
20:22And she suspects that man placed the bomb there.
20:27Turns out, it's true!
20:28People from Croatia don't like people from Yugoslavia.
20:31There were Croatian nationalists who had decided whatever happens, happens.
20:35We want to hurt people from Yugoslavia.
20:37So this day that they planted a bomb in the plane Vesna was in,
20:41the same day they placed another bomb in a train.
20:44In total, 128 people from Yugoslavia died.
20:4828 were in the plane, 100 were in the train.
20:52There was some pride and some fights happening discretely.
20:56And that's the reason, Vesna's plane was bombed.
21:0033,330 feet
21:02But who is God?
21:03Vesna survived
21:05Vesna, in fact after 10 months
21:08Things at the coffee or tea,
21:12her pelvis healed.
21:14Both her legs healed,
21:16she started walking after 10 months.
21:18In fact,
21:19Vesna healed so well,
21:21she re-applied to go back to work as a flight attendant.
21:26They told her, "No, you are now joking.
21:28After what you have been through, we can't.
21:30Do this, we will give you a job
21:32but take a desk job,
21:34you have been through enough."
21:35So she got a desk job,
21:38but I hear eventually
21:41she got to a point she didn't get along with the Yugoslavian government.
21:46She became an activist.
21:48Soon her activism led to her being fired in the airline she was working in.
21:53But she pushed on with activism because the president at the time,
21:57was doing things they didn't agree on.
22:02But Vesna is a high spirited person.
22:05After the accident when she was 22 years old,
22:07she lived for another 44 years.
22:09Unfortunately she died in 2016
22:12when she was 66 years old.
22:17And that is our story today, of a heroine who survived against all odds.
22:23Falling from 33,330 feet,
22:27to the ground.
22:28And she lived to tell the tale.
22:31Let us just clap for her.
22:33That's someone who doesn't want to die.
22:36It's old age that made let to her kicking the bucket.
22:40But her will power to live.
22:43Vesna's is unmatched.
22:47Wadau, that marks the end.
22:48I hope you really enjoyed it.
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23:02Go to the till and send something, we will be happy.
23:06God bless you abundantly.
23:07You have been true.
23:08Adios Muchachos!
23:10Peace!
23:13Okay, it's home time.
23:15♪Theme Song♪

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