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    What distance is the largest fall without a parachute that a person has survived?

    Question #105492. Asked by madkeen4. (May 11 09 3:43 PM)


    maskman22

    		According to the Guinness book of records, Eugene Andreev (USSR) holds the official record for the longest free-fall parachute jump after falling for 80,380 ft (24,500 m) from an altitude of 83,523 ft (25,457 m) near the city of Saratov, Russia on November 1, 1962.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-fall

    May 11 09, 4:58 PM
    scottietwenty3

    		The Highest Free Fall Ever Survived Without A Parachute.

    Air hostess Vesna Vulovic, of Yugoslavia, fell 33,330 feet into a snowbound forest in Serbska Kamenice, Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1972 when the DC-9 airliner she was on exploded.

    http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=154


    May 11 09, 7:11 PM
    scottietwenty3

    		Vesna Vuloviæ (born 3 January 1950) is a former Serbian flight attendant. She holds the world record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (33,333 feet).

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

    May 11 09, 7:13 PM

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