"Vulović's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused

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Mar 27, 2024
11:58:19am

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her to pass out quickly after the cabin depressurized and kept her heart from bursting on impact."

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Fishious

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Just finished Masters of the Air. I have no words.

EDthoracotomy

Mar 27, 8:17am

I once interviewed a guy who got blown out of a B-24 at 10,000-ft, no parachute

2FarGone

Mar 27, 8:24am

Wow. That’s incredible

Cougarclaw

Mar 27, 8:28am

How is that survivable? The fall into the lake

kotacoug

Mar 27, 8:44am

I have asked the same question every since I heard it.

2FarGone

Mar 27, 8:59am

People have landed on the ground and survived from that height

JOPE

Mar 27, 9:04am

This lady holds the record, flight attendant fell from 33K feet when plane exploded

JOPE

Mar 27, 9:13am

Crazy story.

kotacoug

Mar 27, 9:22am

"Vulović's physicians concluded that her history of low blood pressure caused

Fishious

Mar 27, 11:58am

Depending on body position, etc., he would hit terminal velocity on average in

Hawk in the 303

Mar 27, 9:21am

Hitting water at terminal velocity would be catastrophic. The story Jope posted

kotacoug

Mar 27, 9:25am

More information please.....

protonspring

Mar 27, 8:44am

Maybe it was the big leather body suit

RIGAMORTIS

Mar 27, 8:47am

Like I said, he was famous, so he has a Wikipedia page, but it does not contain that detail.

2FarGone

Mar 27, 8:54am

He wrote unpublished memoir about his career that I have. I'll see if I can find it in there later.

2FarGone

Mar 27, 8:57am

I would love to read it if it is sharable by PDF or some other means

Fishious

Mar 27, 12:11pm

Would love to read it too. Im going to read on him after the kids go down tonigh

Ddean

Mar 27, 5:06pm

I know I have a paper copy. I’ll check if I scanned it. It’s been awhile and it’s not short

2FarGone

Mar 28, 9:36am

How is that possible?

RIGAMORTIS

Mar 27, 8:45am

That is unbelievable

TNT

Mar 27, 8:55am

Love the eyeroll from the one and only UtahFootballGM.

Ungoy

Mar 27, 9:02am

I rolled my eyes when I saw that. They almost fell out of my head.

Jfly1975

Mar 27, 9:08am

That person has to be a teen

gmoney7

Mar 27, 9:08am

or a Huntsman

AZ Coug

Mar 28, 9:39am

There are at least 3 others that survived During WW2, Alan Magee fell from over 20,000 feet and crashed through glass

JOPE

Mar 27, 9:25am

Hard to believe, but plausible, and was formally studied by the FAA (link).

seacougar

Mar 27, 9:41am

I’m just nominating this because it’s such a high quality post. Very interesting info.

Icecat

Mar 27, 2:27pm

Thanks, glad you found it interesting.

seacougar

Mar 28, 9:23am

World record cliff jump of 59 meters hit the water at 76 mph. He looked shaken,

TailgateU

Mar 27, 3:38pm

That is one of the most compelling headlines I've ever seen on CB!

TailgateU

Mar 27, 3:23pm

It’s physically impossible to fall 10,000 feet without a parachute into water and live

Blue2thebone

Mar 27, 11:28pm

Since it’s impossible Survive a freefall into water at anything much greater than 2 to 300 feet I looked up this guy to

Blue2thebone

Mar 27, 11:43pm

It was really good

RockyBalboa

Mar 27, 8:34am

My maternal grandpa was enlisted and went to camp right after marrying

NYC and Japan

Mar 28, 7:24am

Truly a different breed.

EDthoracotomy

Mar 28, 9:26am

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