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Luckiest People Who Survived The Impossible - Part 2

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Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Luck isn’t something you can count on, but sometimes it strikes when you need it most. I’m not just talking about finding a dollar or dodging traffic, but one-in-a-million events that’ll make you say: “what are the odds”. Stay tuned for some more seriously fortunate people who survived the impossible.



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0:00.0

Luck isn't something you can count on, but sometimes it strikes you when you need it most.

0:05.6

I'm not just talking about finding a dollar or dodging traffic, but one in a million events that'll make you say, what are the odds?

0:13.8

Stay tuned for some more seriously fortunate people who survived the impossible.

0:29.5

You're listening. You're listening to be amazing. people who survived the impossible. On the evening of January 26, 1972, a man named Bruno Honky discovered the wreckage of an airplane

0:37.1

on a hillside just outside his village in Czechoslovakia.

0:41.1

It seemed impossible that anyone could have survived such destruction until he noticed a shoeless woman in a turquoise flight attendant uniform hidden among the wreckage, Besna Vlovak.

0:52.3

Little did she know it, but she had just set a new world record surviving the

0:57.1

highest fall without a parachute. In fact, then 22-year-old Bolovic had fallen 33,330 feet out of the

1:07.0

sky, suffering two broken legs, three broken vertebrae, a fractured pelvis, broken ribs,

1:12.3

and a fractured skull.

1:14.0

Volovic had been a flight attendant for just eight months before the fateful crash, and she

1:18.6

was only aboard JAT Flight 367 from Stockholm to Belgrade because she was confused for another

1:25.0

attendant named Vezna.

1:26.8

Just 46 minutes into the flight, there was an explosion in the baggage compartment which caused the plane to enter a fateful nosedive.

1:34.7

When the fuselage broke apart, Volovic was panned by a food cart which stopped her being sucked out of the plane.

1:40.7

Physicians had advised Volovic against a career as a flat attendant due to her low blood pressure,

1:45.7

but it was that very thing that prevented her heart from bursting on impact with the mountainside.

1:51.5

Severe amnesia meant she never remembered anything from the crash,

1:54.9

and she even continued to fly right up until her death in 2016.

1:59.1

Paragliding doesn't appeal to everyone and it probably won't be

2:02.0

at the top of your bucket list after hearing this next terrifying aerial story. In February 2007,

2:08.2

then 35-year-old Iwo was near Ska was training for the upcoming paragliding world championships

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