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On January 26, 1972, JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 was bombed over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
Jat Airways (IATA designator JU) is the national carrier of Serbia and Montenegro, former national carrier of Yugoslavia, and ranks as the sixteenth oldest airline in Europe. ...
Srbská Kamenice (old German name: Windisch Kamnitz) is a village in the Czech Republic, North Bohemia, Ústí nad Labem Region. ...
The DC-9 crashed following an explosion by a bomb placed by émigré Croat Ustaša extremists. The Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engined jet airliner, first manufactured in 1965 and, in much modified form and under a succession of different names, still in production today as the Boeing 717. ...
The Ustaše (often spelled Ustashe in English; singular Ustaša or Ustasha) was a Croatian far-right organisation put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941. ...
The flight had six crew members and twenty two passengers.
One crew member survived, a flight attendant named Vesna Vulović. Vulovic entered the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall without a parachute, as she fell from 10,160 meters (33,000 feet) inside of the tail section of the aircraft. She was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down but lived to tell about it. She continued working for the airline holding a desk job. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of world records, both human achievements and the extrema of the natural world. ...
Dramatization
The crash was recently featured on the Discovery Channel program Mythbusters.
See also Citing the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, an aviation accident is defined as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person...
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