Vesna Vulovic: The flight attendant who fell 10km in a plane bombing and survived

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Locals from a nearby village rushed to the wreckage and found the 22-year-old flight attendant still strapped into her seat and very much alive. 9News

But Ms Vulovic was pinned in the fuselage by a food cart, keeping her in place as it fell to the ground.The trees and the snow, as well as the angle of the mountain, made for a softer landing.

Low-blood pressure typically keeps people from becoming flight attendants, but she said she had drunk so much coffee the day of her medical exam that her heart rate was faster than usual. Because she had survived the crash, authorities feared she would be made an assassination target by the Croatian separatist terrorists responsible for the bombing.She had no memory of the crash, so Ms Vulovic was perfectly happy to resume her duties as a flight attendant.

And when Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic was ousted in 2000, she used her celebrity to campaign for the centre-left Democratic Party and for her nation's entry into the European Union.But despite her incredible survival, she never considered herself lucky.

 

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