I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived

Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by jpatokal on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:41PM (#15480526)

Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:44PM (#15480532)

Tangently related: Israeli F-15 pilot who loses a wing in a mid-air collision and still successfully lands.

https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...

Interesting tidbit: they slapped a replacement wing on and returned the aircraft to service.

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by sundvor on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:56PM (#15480561)

Talk about winging it! Great link thanks. Probably a good thing no-one told the pilot how badly his plane was damaged.

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by avip on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:16AM (#15481635)

Interview with the pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveSc8Lp0ZE

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by mc32 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:54PM (#15480721)

And totally different tangent, GM will not warranty a C7 because of a minor crack on the chassis[1] so it's declared totaled and offered for 7.5 grand or so.

[1]http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/09/one-tiny-crack-led-a-c7-...

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by lallysingh on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:47AM (#15480884)

https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-corvette-was-totaled-becaus...

A small crack, but not minor.

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by bujak on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:43AM (#15481104)

Nope, that story is probably a fabrication. Plane was likely shot down during emergency landing. Huge fuckup by communist forces that was covered up.

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by neurotech1 on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:47AM (#15482281)

There is a few similar cases

Bahia Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_Bakari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia_Flight_626

Juliane Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANSA_Flight_508

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by dredmorbius on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:10AM (#15481404)

Reference?

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by cyberferret on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:12AM (#15480978)

Vesna only passed away late last year (of old age). I remember reading her remarkable story as a kid.

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Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived by jackson1way on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:42AM (#15481733)

very interesting stories!

there is a few similar posts here, but I always thought that the only known person who ever survived a fatal passenger aircraft crash, dropping out at high altitude, was this person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

She was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest. When the airliner broke up in mid-air, she survived after plummeting about 3 km (~10,000 feet) while still strapped to her seat, before crashing through the rain forest canopy and coming to rest on the forest floor.

Her injuries did allow her to walk for 10 days, until she was found. So you could say, it was mostly light injuries.

It is nowhere mentioned that she had a missing spleen btw.

someone else posted also this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sole_survivors_of_airl...

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