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On December 23, 2016, at the age of 66, the legendary flight attendant Vesna Vulović, who in 1972 was present at the explosion in the aircraft cabin and then fell along with the debris from a height of 10 km, died. She received numerous fractures and injuries, fell into a coma for several days, but then recovered, entered the Guinness Book of Records and became a world celebrity.

On January 26, 1972, 22-year-old Vesna Vulović was flying from Stockholm to Belgrade on a Yugoslav Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32. When the plane flew over Hersdorf, Germany, it disappeared from radar, and 46 minutes after takeoff it exploded in the air. It is assumed that the bomb was carried on board by Croatian nationalists - the Ustasha. Debris fell near the village of Serbska Kamenice in Czechoslovakia.

Of the 28 people on board, only Vulovich survived. As a result of the fall, she received fractures of the base of her skull, three vertebrae, both legs and pelvis; she remained in a coma for several days, but then she woke up and the first thing she did was ask for a cigarette. Interestingly, due to an error by the airline, the girl got on the flight instead of another flight attendant with the same name (Vesna Nikolic). At the time of the disaster, the flight attendant had not yet completed her training and was on the crew as a trainee.

What saved Vulovich, who spent three minutes in free fall? Perhaps the fact that she was sandwiched in the tail of the plane, between corpses and pieces of luggage. In addition, the blow was softened by pine branches and a thick layer of snow.

Her screams in the forest were heard by forester Bruno Henke, who was a doctor in the German army during World War II. He helped the girl hold out until medical help arrived.

Vulović spent 10 months with paralysis of the lower part of the body (from the waist to the legs). After that, she was treated for another six months, but then recovered and even asked to fly with JAT again. She was turned down and given a job in the airline office instead.

Such fearlessness is explained by the fact that Vesna did not remember either the accident or her rescue. In a 2008 interview, she admitted that she only remembers greeting passengers after takeoff from Copenhagen, and then waking up in the hospital and seeing her mother.

Vulović became a national heroine: she was given a reception by Marshal Tito, which was then considered a great honor for a citizen of Yugoslavia. Songs were dedicated to the woman and she was invited to the most popular television shows. It became popular to name girls after the flight attendant who survived: it supposedly brought them good luck.

Vesna Vulović used her fame for political purposes: she protested against the rule of Slobodan Milosevic, and later campaigned for one of the parties in the elections.

The peak of Vulovich's international fame came in 1985, when she was invited to London on behalf of the Guinness Book of Records. There, Vulovich received an award as the person who survived a fall without a parachute from a maximum height. The woman was presented with the prize by musician Paul McCartney, the idol of her youth.

Vesna said that she was as much a “survivor” as other residents of Serbia: “We Serbs are truly survivors. We survived communism, Tito, war, poverty, NATO bombing, sanctions and Milosevic. We just want a normal life."

Vesna Vulović was found dead at home in Belgrade: police opened the woman’s apartment at the request of her friends, alarmed that she was not answering calls. The cause of death is unknown, but according to Vulovich’s friends, her health has recently deteriorated.

In Belgrade, former flight attendant Vesna Vulović died at the age of 67, having survived a fall from a height of 10 thousand meters after a plane crash that occurred in January 1972 over the German city of Hermsdorf.
She did not answer calls from friends, which is why they became worried and asked the police to check her apartment. Law enforcement officers found the body of the former flight attendant on December 23 in the bathroom. Death occurred a few days ago.

Vesna Vulović was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who survived the fall without a parachute from the highest altitude in history. All crew members and passengers, except Vesna, died in the plane crash. Rescuers found a 22-year-old flight attendant under the rubble. She received numerous injuries, but miraculously survived.

The 44-year-old plane crash suffered by Vulović is believed to have been caused by a bomb carried aboard the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 by Croatian Ustasha nationalists.

Vesna Vulovich became a flight attendant by accident. After graduating from high school, she entered the university. Enchanted, like many other young people of that generation, by the songs of the Beatles, Vesna chose the English department for herself and began to study English in order to understand her idols. After her first year, she went on an internship to England to improve her language. But after her return home, a meeting took place that radically changed Vulovich’s life. One of her school friends had by that time trained to be a pilot and flew planes of the Yugoslav company JAT. It was he who advised Vesna to master the specialty of an international airline stewardess in order to visit her beloved London once a month. And the girl’s finances required replenishment. In 1971, she took to the skies for the first time. At the time of the tragedy, she had not yet completed her studies and did not have a permanent job.

22-year-old Vesna Vulović was not supposed to be on this flight, but due to an error by the airline, she was assigned to it instead of another flight attendant with the same name (Vesna Nikolić). On the day of the disaster, Vesna had not yet completed her training and was on the crew as a trainee.
On January 25, 1972, the crew in which Vulovich trained arrived in Copenhagen, where they were supposed to replace the pilots who had brought the plane from Stockholm. As Vulovich herself later recalled, she had the impression that her more experienced colleagues seemed to have a presentiment of something - they talked a lot about their families, bought them souvenirs...

On January 26, 1972, a DC-9-32 Jugoslovenski Aerotransport (JAT, international name - Yugoslav Airlines) was flying on the route Stockholm - Copenhagen - Zagreb - Belgrade on the Copenhagen - Zagreb section. There were 28 people on board, including 5 crew members, including flight attendant Vesna Vulović, and 23 passengers. Take-off, climb and access to the air route took place as usual. The flight took place at an altitude of about 10 thousand meters.
An hour after takeoff, the DC-9 passed the next route point: the Hermsdorf radio station in East Germany and reached an altitude of 10,160 meters. Soon the plane unexpectedly collapsed: the nose section with the cockpit separated from the main body. The debris fell near the village of Serbska Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the territory of the Czech Republic). At the same time, large parts of the fuselage turned out to be no more than a kilometer apart from each other, whereas usually destruction at high altitudes leads to a significant dispersion of fragments.

According to the official investigation, before the destruction in the air, the aircraft's systems were operating normally, and the pilots were in their seats. The examination did not find any alcohol or drugs in the pilots’ blood. No distress signals or breakdown messages were transmitted to the ground. The plane was relatively new: it began operation less than a year before the disaster.
The cause of the tragedy was identified as an explosion in the luggage compartment in the front part of the fuselage. 10 days after the disaster, the Czechoslovak State Security Service presented fragments of an alarm clock, which was determined to be part of an explosive mechanism. Followers of the Croatian ultra-right organization Ustasha were suspected of organizing the terrorist attack. However, the crime remained officially unsolved, and the names of the terrorists were not established...

Vesna Vulovich was working in the passenger compartment when the explosion occurred. She immediately lost consciousness, and subsequently could not remember what she was doing and where exactly she was (in the middle part of the fuselage or in the tail).
Of the 28 people on board, only the Serbian flight attendant survived. She fell without a parachute from a height of 10,160 meters and survived, which was recognized as a world record.

Local residents arrived at the crash site before the rescuers. They disassembled the fragments and tried to find survivors. All crew members and passengers, except Vesna, died. Rescuers found a 22-year-old flight attendant under the rubble. Peasant Bruno Honke discovered Vesna, gave her first aid and handed her over to the arriving doctors. Surprisingly, the girl miraculously remained alive after falling from such a height.
- A loud explosion, a very bright light and unbearable cold - that’s all I remember about that disaster,– said Vesna Vulovich. “A local resident, a German named Bruno, who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II, came across me. I felt my pulse and realized that my spine was broken, so I didn’t move my body and immediately called for help.

Vesna was in a coma and received many injuries: fractures of the base of the skull, three vertebrae, both legs and the pelvis.
The girl was in a coma for 27 days; it took her 16 months to fully recover.
According to Vesna Vulovich herself, the first thing she asked for upon returning to consciousness was to smoke...

She lost her memory every day - the next morning she forgot about what happened to her from the moment she came on board (her memory was restored after a few months, and the woman remembered the explosion itself only 25 years later). The doctors assured: Vesna would never be able to walk. She did it - although she studied for 4.5 years.
– I don’t know how I managed to survive, - said Vulovich. – After all, at such a height a person dies almost instantly - the heart breaks from lack of air. Doctors suggest that the reason for my luck may be my low blood pressure. But why I didn’t break into pieces - no one can understand that. No other way than God saved me.

According to the memoirs of Vesna Vulovich, she did not develop a fear of flying, since she did not remember the moment of the disaster. Therefore, after recovery, the girl tried to return to work as a flight attendant in Yugoslav Airlines, but ended up getting an office position at an airline, where she continued to work.
Having finally left the hospital, where she had spent more than one year, Vesna went to work - to be reinstated as a flight attendant. Her colleagues looked at her as if she was crazy: to survive this and fearlessly board a plane again? They categorically refused to take her on the flight, suggesting that she quit and forget about aviation forever. But Vulovich insisted on her own: nothing particularly terrible happened, she loves flying and does not intend to change it.
– But the officials did not listen to my arguments - they gave me an office job at the airline., - Vesna complained. – It's a pity. I so wanted to go to the sky again! So from then on I flew only as a passenger.
She got married in 1977 (divorced in 1992). No children.

The miraculous rescue brought Vesna Vulović fame. The Guinness Book of Records in 1985, 13 years after the disaster, recognized her as the person who survived a fall without a parachute from the highest altitude in history. An interesting detail: when Vesna arrived in London for the ceremony of presenting a certificate of entry into the Book of Records, at the same time Paul McCartney, the idol of her youth, received a similar document.
And in the Russian Guinness Book of Records, Larisa Savitskaya is in first place. In 1981, the plane in which she was returning from her honeymoon collided with a military bomber in mid-air. Within 8 minutes, a piece of the plane on which Larisa was sitting fell from a height of 5200 meters. The girl landed on a birch grove. She received several fractures and lost almost all her teeth, but was able to build herself a temporary shelter, where she waited for help for two days. Savitskaya, by the way, is a record holder twice: as a survivor of a fall from a maximum height and as someone who received... the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage - 75 rubles!

In the nineties, Vesna Vulovic became one of the prominent critics of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. In 2000, Vesna Vulović actively participated in the events that led to his resignation.

Vesna Vulović died in December 2016 at home in Belgrade. On December 23, her body was discovered after the police opened the apartment, where the woman’s friends turned, concerned that she had not appeared on the street for several days and had not answered phone calls. The cause of death has not been disclosed by authorities.

A tragic story happened back in 1981. On a clear August day, the couple Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky were returning home after their honeymoon. They got married in the spring, but decided to postpone their honeymoon until the summer, because Larisa was a student and did not want to interrupt her studies.
The newlyweds flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to their native Blagoveshchensk. They settled down in the rear of the plane and dozed off peacefully during the flight...
Suddenly Larisa woke up from a terrible blow. At an altitude of 5,200 meters, their plane collided with a Tu-16 military bomber! The wings of the passenger airliner were torn off and the upper part of the fuselage was cut off...
“Screams were heard everywhere. I turned to my husband and saw that he was already dead - he was killed by shrapnel. I said goodbye to Volodya and began to wait for death,” Larisa recalls about those events.
“While we were falling, footage from the American film “Miracles Still Happen,” which Volodya and I recently watched in the cinema, suddenly flashed before my eyes. There, the girl also got into a plane crash and, huddled in her seat, fell over the jungle. Following her example, I moved to the chair near the porthole to see how much was left to the ground, and grabbed it with a death grip.”

A few hours after the fall, Larisa came to her senses. She was the only survivor of 38 passengers.
“When I opened my eyes, I saw my husband right in front of me, a few meters away. It seemed that he wanted to see me and thus said goodbye to me,” Larisa says about past events.
As a result of the fall, the woman received numerous injuries. She suffered a broken spine, arm and several ribs, knocked out teeth and a serious concussion. But due to shock, Larisa did not feel pain. She built herself a small shelter, warmed herself with seat covers and covered herself with a piece of polyethylene from the rain and mosquitoes.

The woman spent three long days in the taiga before she was discovered by a ground search team. Before this, helicopter pilots had seen her several times, but they mistook her for a geologists' cook. No one could have imagined that after such an accident there could be survivors.
The Soviet government classified the fact of the plane crash. Not a single line was written about what happened in any newspaper. And near the ward, where Larisa came to her senses for three months, two people in civilian clothes were constantly on duty, not allowing any of her friends to see her.
“I learned from my parents that they had already dug a grave for me. The relatives of all passengers on that flight were notified of their deaths according to the list. In addition, my parents advised me not to tell anyone about what happened. The relevant authorities worked with them and threatened to remain silent,” says Larisa.

After a terrible plane crash, Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Guinness Book of Records twice:
- as a survivor of a fall from a height of 5200m,
- and as a recipient of the minimum amount of compensation for damage in a plane crash - 75 rubles

After the plane crash, Larisa was paralyzed, but she was still able to get out, although she was forced to do odd jobs and even went hungry. Larisa later learned that after the plane crash, a grave was already prepared for her and her husband, because she was the only survivor.

In 1986, Larisa gave birth to a son, Gosha, and the two of them lived for a long time on child care benefits.

In the 2000s, Larisa Savitskaya gave interviews, although reluctantly. The most difficult things in her life, perhaps, were not those days in the taiga, which she spent next to the remains of the plane and the body of her husband, but all the subsequent years. “Living is always better than not living.”

Whether she doubted this statement in difficult moments is unknown. But one day, in an interview, Larisa Savitskaya said: “If they left me here, it means I have to do something else...”.

In August 1981, the spouses Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky were returning home after their honeymoon. Their wedding was still in the spring, but they decided to postpone their honeymoon to the summer - after all, Larisa was a student and could not interrupt her studies.
The newlyweds flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to their native Blagoveshchensk. They settled down in the tail section of the An-24RV aircraft and dozed off peacefully...
Suddenly Larisa woke up from a terrible blow. At an altitude of 5,200 meters, their plane collided with a Tu-16 bomber! The wings of the passenger airliner were torn off and the upper part of the fuselage was cut off... “Screams were heard everywhere. I turned to my husband and saw that he was already dead - he was killed by shrapnel. I said goodbye to Volodya and began to wait for death,” Larisa recalls about those events.
“While we were falling, footage from the American film “Miracles Still Happen,” which Volodya and I recently watched in the cinema, suddenly flashed before my eyes. There, the girl also got into a plane crash and, huddled in her seat, fell over the jungle. Following her example, I moved to the chair near the porthole to see how much was left to the ground, and grabbed it with a death grip.”
A few hours after the fall, Larisa came to her senses. She was the only survivor of nearly forty passengers.

“When I opened my eyes, I saw my husband right in front of me, a few meters away. It seemed that he wanted to see me and thus said goodbye to me,” Larisa says about past events.
As a result of the fall, the woman received numerous injuries. She suffered a broken spine, arm and several ribs, knocked out teeth and a serious concussion. But due to shock, Larisa did not feel pain. She built herself a small shelter, warmed herself with seat covers and covered herself with a piece of polyethylene from the rain and mosquitoes.
The woman spent three long days in the taiga before she was discovered by a ground search team. Before this, she had been seen several times by helicopter pilots, but was mistaken for the cook of a geological expedition. No one could have imagined that after such an accident there could be survivors.


The Soviet government classified the fact of the plane crash. Not a single line was written about what happened in any newspaper. And near the ward, where Larisa came to her senses for three months, two people in civilian clothes were constantly on duty, not allowing any of her friends to see her. However, this was a common practice: planes in the USSR of those years crashed several times a year, and any information about disasters in the Union was always hidden.
“I learned from my parents that they had already dug a grave for me. The relatives of all passengers on that flight were notified of their deaths according to the list. In addition, my parents advised me not to tell anyone about what happened. The relevant authorities worked with them and persistently asked them to remain silent,” said Larisa.


After a terrible plane crash, Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Guinness Book of Records twice:
- as a survivor of a fall from a height of 5200m,
- and as a recipient of the minimum amount of compensation for damage in a plane crash - 75 rubles
According to Gosstrakh standards in the USSR, 300 rubles were required. compensation for damages for the dead and a quarter of it - 75 rubles. for the survivors.
After the plane crash, Larisa was paralyzed, but she was still able to get out, although she was forced to do odd jobs and even went hungry.
In 1986, Larisa gave birth to a son, Gosha, and the two of them lived for a long time on child care benefits.
In the 2000s, Larisa Savitskaya gave interviews, although reluctantly. The most difficult things in her life, perhaps, were not those days in the taiga, which she spent next to the remains of the plane and the body of her husband, but all the subsequent years. But extraordinary luck, combined with no less unusual composure, helped her out here too.
And once, in an interview, Larisa Savitskaya said: “If they left me here, it means I have to do something else...”.


The same place where the plane crashed

In some cases, passengers did not even receive any serious injuries. Some were simply late for the tragic flight, canceled the flight for any reason, while others remained relatively safe and sound after the crash. There were also cases when those who were not present on the fatal board, but died under its rubble, became victims of the disaster.

Four-year-old American girl who survived the disaster

In August 1989, an American airliner flying the route Saginaw - Detroit - Phoenix - Santa Ana took off from the airport in Detroit. A few minutes after the plane left the ground, it began to roll sideways, crashed into several lamp posts and burst into flames. The airliner crashed onto the road, drove along it, hit a railway embankment and crashed into an overpass. The plane was completely destroyed. One hundred and fifty passengers and crew members died in this disaster. Two people who were in the cars that were crashed by the plane died on the ground.

Four-year-old American Cecilia Sechan suffered significant injuries but survived the disaster. The child who survived the plane crash was flying with his parents and older brother. The girl was noticed by firefighter John Tied, who was working at the crash site. Cecilia suffered a fractured skull, third-degree burns, a broken collarbone and a broken leg. The girl underwent several operations, but was able to fully recover. Photos of the girl who survived the plane crash then spread all over America.

Cecilia Sechan was raised by her uncle and aunt. She has never given interviews, but broke her silence in 2013 by appearing in the documentary Sole Survivor. The girl says that she is not afraid to fly on airplanes. She is guided by the principle: if it happened once, it will not happen again. In addition, the girl got a tattoo of an airplane on her arm, which reminds her of that both tragic and happy day.

Larisa Savitskaya, survivor of the crash over Zavitinsk

In 1981, Soviet student Larisa Savitskaya was returning from a honeymoon with her husband on a Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk flight operated by an An-24 aircraft. The newlyweds had tickets for the middle part of the plane, but since there were many empty seats in the cabin, they decided to take seats in the back.

During the flight, the plane collided with a Tu-16K bomber. There were several reasons for this. These include errors by airport ground staff and dispatchers, and generally unsatisfactory organization of flights in the Zavitinsk area, and non-compliance with safety regulations, and unclear interaction between civilian and military aircraft. Everyone on board both planes died, except for the only girl who survived the crash.

At the time of the plane collision, Larisa was sleeping in her chair. The girl woke up from a burn caused by depressurization of the cabin, cold air (the temperature dropped to -30 degrees) and a strong blow. After the fuselage broke, the girl was thrown into the aisle, she lost consciousness, but a few moments later she woke up, reached the nearest seat and squeezed into it without wearing a seat belt. Larisa Savitskaya, who survived the plane crash, later claimed that at that moment she remembered the film “Miracles Still Happen,” the heroine of which miraculously escaped the crash by squeezing into a chair. But the girl did not think about salvation then, she just wanted “to die without pain.”

Part of the plane fell on a birch grove, which significantly softened the blow. Larisa fell on a piece of debris 3 x 4 meters. It was subsequently determined that the fall took eight minutes. The girl fell to the ground unconscious.

When she woke up, she saw in front of her a chair with the body of her dead husband. Larisa was injured, but was still able to move independently. The girl had to spend two days in the forest, alone, among corpses and the wreckage of the plane. The girl was wearing paint that was flying off the fuselage, and her hair was very tangled in the wind. She built a temporary shelter from the rubble, kept warm with seat covers, and protected herself from mosquitoes with plastic bags.

It was raining all this time, but search work was still carried out. Larisa waved at a passing helicopter, but rescuers, not expecting to find survivors, mistook her for a geologist from a camp nearby. Larisa Savitskaya, as well as the bodies of her husband and two other passengers, were the last to be found. She was the only survivor.

Doctors determined that the girl had a concussion, broken ribs, broken arms, spinal injuries, and in addition, she had lost almost all her teeth. Despite her injuries, she did not receive disability. Later Larisa was paralyzed, but she was able to recover. Larisa became the person who received the minimum amount of compensation, that is, only 75 rubles.

Serbian flight attendant who survived a plane crash in 1972.

Flight attendants who survive a plane crash are not uncommon. However, the only survivors are already a one in a million chance. Such a miracle happened to a flight attendant on a flight from Copenhagen to Zagreb. The plane exploded in mid-air over the village of Serbska in Czechoslovakia. The investigation named the cause of the crash as a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists.

When the explosive detonated, the plane exploded into several pieces and began to fall. In the middle compartment at that time there was flight attendant Vesna Vulović, who was replacing her colleague Vesna Nikolić. The luck of the girl who survived the plane crash was that she had a soft fall and that she was first discovered by a peasant who worked in a field hospital during the war and knew how to provide first aid.

The girl, who was soon taken to the hospital, spent 27 days in a coma, then 16 months in a hospital bed. She had amnesia, the girl for some time forgot every day that passed. But she still survived. Doctors attributed her miraculous salvation to low blood pressure. When a person finds himself at a high altitude, his heart breaks from high pressure. But Vesna, who always had very low blood pressure, was able to escape death in the air. It also helped that the girl lost consciousness. But no one knows how the flight attendant managed to survive hitting the ground.

After the tragedy, the flight attendant who survived the plane crash quit and never flew on planes again. She admitted to reporters that even before that disaster she was on the verge of life and death eight times. This was when Vesna was on vacation in Montenegro and met a shark that should not have been in those waters at all, when she was arguing with her mentally ill neighbor about politics (the man took a knife and tried to attack), when she had a severe case of ectopic pregnancy and so on.

Nine-year-old girl who survived the crash over Cartagena

In January 1995, an American plane was flying from Bogota to Cartagena with 5 crew members and 47 passengers on board. During landing, the altimeter failed and the plane crashed in a swampy area. Nine-year-old Erica Delgado was flying with her parents and younger brother. A girl who survived the plane crash said that her mother pushed her out of the falling plane.

The plane exploded and caught fire as it fell. Erica fell into the seaweed, which softened her fall. Immediately after the tragedy, looting began. Residents of a nearby village tore the gold necklace off the living girl, ignoring her pleas for help. Some time later, the girl who survived the plane crash was found by a farmer.

One and a half dozen survivors and 72 days of struggle with nature

In the fall of 1972, a plane crashed while flying from Montevideo to Santiago. The survivors had virtually no chance of salvation, but they managed to cheat death. Several passengers were left in the snowy mountains, not knowing where they were or whether anyone was looking for them. It was cold in the mountains, people tried to somehow warm up, hiding in the remains of the fuselage. By morning, several passengers still had not woken up. The passengers managed to find some provisions: crackers, liquor, a few chocolates, sardines. Everyone understood that this would not be enough. The survivors later found a radio and heard that the rescue operation had been called off. Then they decided to eat the dead.

The next day there was an avalanche, some people were trapped under snow debris. They managed to get out from under the rubble three days later. People waited 72 days for salvation. Each new day was similar to the previous one. Soon the three survivors decided to go in search of some settlement. It was difficult for them to breathe and move in the snow; soon one of the group decided to return back to the plane.

When they reached the top of the mountain, they saw only snow-capped mountains around. They thought there was no hope, but decided that it was better to die on the road than near the plane. Moreover, the mother and sister of one of the guys had died earlier, and he knew that if he returned, he would have to eat their meat.

On the ninth day of the journey, the young people found a river, on the other side they saw a shepherd. He brought paper and a pen and threw it with a stone to the other side. The survivors wrote down everything that happened to them. The shepherd threw cheese and bread to the young guys, and he himself went to the nearest settlement, which was 10 hours away. He returned back with the military.

The rescue operation took two days. First, the military rescued two young people who went in search of the settlement. The survivors gave their first press conference in the mountains. The young people had to tell everything that happened. But the press turned out to be merciless, the newspapers were full of headlines “They ate the dead”, “Traces of cannibalism discovered” and so on. But both the rescuers and the survivors themselves understood that they had no other opportunity to survive.

Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Juliana Diler Kepke

The plane crash happened at night. When the girl woke up, the hands of her watch were moving; the time was about nine in the morning. The surviving girl later said that her eyes and head hurt very much. She was sitting in the same chair. Juliana lost consciousness several times. The girl saw rescue helicopters, but could not give any signal.

Seventeen-year-old Juliana broke her collarbone, she had a deep wound on her leg, scratches, her right eye was swollen shut from the blow, and her whole body was covered in bruises. The girl found herself in a deep forest. Her father was a zoologist; as a child, he taught Juliana the rules of survival, she was able to get food, and soon found a stream. Nine days later, Juliana Diller Kepke herself came out to the fishermen.

Based on the story of Juliana’s miraculous rescue, the feature film “Miracles Still Happen” was made, which later helped Larisa Savitskaya survive.

Survivor of a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean

People who survived a plane crash were usually able to fully recover from the tragedy. In 2009, a flight from Paris to the Comoros crashed into the Indian Ocean. Thirteen-year-old Bahia Bakari flew with her mother to visit her grandparents in the Comoros Islands. The girl does not know how exactly she managed to survive, since she was sleeping at the time of the disaster. The girl received fractures and multiple bruises from the fall. But she needed to hold out even before the rescuers arrived. She climbed onto one of the fragments, which was kept afloat. Bakari was found only fourteen hours after the disaster. The girl was taken to Paris on a special flight.

"Lucky Four" in the largest disaster in terms of number of victims

In Japan in 1985, the largest disaster involving a single aircraft occurred in terms of the number of victims. The Boeing took off from Tokyo to Osaka. There were more than five hundred passengers and crew members on board. After takeoff, the tail stabilizer came off, depressurization occurred, pressure dropped, and some of the airliner systems failed.

The plane was doomed; it became uncontrollable. The pilots managed to keep the plane in the air for more than half an hour. As a result, he crashed one hundred kilometers from the capital of Japan. The plane crashed in the mountains, rescuers were able to find the wreckage only the next morning; they, of course, did not at all hope to find survivors.

But a rescue team discovered a whole group of survivors. They were flight attendant and passenger Hiroko Yoshizaki and her eight-year-old daughter, twelve-year-old Keiko Kawakami. The last girl was found on a tree. All four survivors were in the rear of the plane, exactly where the plane's skin ruptured. But more passengers could have survived the disaster. Keiko Kawakami later claimed that she heard the voices of passengers, including her father. Many passengers died on the ground from their wounds and injuries. The victims of the tragedy were 520 people.

Girl who survived the L-410 plane crash

The girl who survived the plane crash in Khabarovsk is three-year-old Jasmina Leontyeva. The girl was flying with her teacher along the route Khabarovsk - Nelkan; the plane was supposed to land, but it started to land, tilted and fell not far from the runway. Two crew members and four passengers on board were killed. The girl, who was found under the wreckage of the plane, was immediately taken to the hospital, and then transported by a special plane to Khabarovsk. There, the parents of the girl who survived the plane crash were already waiting for Jasmine at the hospital.

Flight technician who survived the Yak-42 crash

A few years ago, a Yak-42 plane crashed with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board. The flight engineer managed to survive this terrible tragedy. Alexander Sizov, a survivor of the plane crash (Lokomotiv), testified in court. The case of Vadim Timofeev, who was responsible for air transport security at the Yak Service company, was considered.

Air transport is one of the safest, but tragedies occur there from time to time. Fortunately, even in a plane crash there is a chance of survival, albeit one in a million. Evidence of this is a Soviet flight attendant who survived a plane crash, the only survivor of a crash over the Indian Ocean, the tragedy over Cartagena, the “lucky four” in Japan and other people.