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To: SamAdams76
I vaguely remember reading about this before but I still find it hard to believe a man could fall 22,000 feet without a parachute and survive. A glass skylight "breaking" his fall? C'mon.

It's happened on more than one occasion. On January 26, 1972, a bomb detonated on board a JAT Yugoslav Airlines DC-9-32. The aircraft was at 33,000 feet at the time and disintegrated in flight. There was one survivor, a flight attendant who had been seated in the rear of the aircraft. Despite her severe injuries, she lived although she was paralyzed from the waist down.

22 posted on 02/03/2004 9:48:41 PM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: COEXERJ145
I remember that one also plus there was another German girl whose airplane disintergrated in the air and she rode her seat down into the Brazilian rain forest. She was able to walk out to get help.
63 posted on 02/04/2004 9:50:06 AM PST by U S Army EOD (Volunteer for EOD and you will never have to worry about getting wounded.)
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