On January 26, 1972, life began as normal for the flight attendant. She went through her normal routine as she readied for work aboard the airline, a routine she had gone through hundreds of times before. Little did she know that this time fate had something else in store for her.

According to the official report, an explosion tore the jetliner into pieces mid-air. At one time it was said a bomb may have been planted in to the front baggage compartment of the plane and explored on-board the aircraft. Other theories include the plane was shot down by accident by the Czechoslovak air force.

When the tail section of the aircraft landed on the snow-covered mountains, it must have landed in just the right way because she was the only survivor among the 28 passengers and crew.

While laying in the wreckage she began to cry out for help when a woodsman Bruno Honke heard her screaming out in the dark. He, a former field medic with Hitler's troops during the war had the knowledge and know how to treat her on the spot.

“The man who found me he told me that I was in the middle part of the plane. I was found with my head down and my colleague on top of me. One part of my body with my leg was in the plane and my head was out of the plane. A catering trolley was pinned against my spine and kept me in the plane. The man who found me, says I was very lucky.

Vesna holds the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 33,333 feet, entering the records in 1985. She was in the hospital for 16 months after coming out out a 27-day coma with many broken bones. She ended up breaking both her legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

So what happened? How did she survive?

“Nobody knows that. One of them said that I had very low blood pressure. I should never have been an air hostess in fact. I had a lot of coffee to drink before my interview, so that when I had my medical exam I passed. Maybe my low blood pressure saved me. I lost consciousness quickly and my heart did not burst,” she said.

One would think that after surviving such a fall she would never set foot on a plane again but her fall did not deter her from her work and she went on to fly for the airline for the next 20 years and she lived a happy life until passing away in her apartment in December of 2016.

To this day she still holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 33,333 feet, entering the records in 1985.

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