What is the highest point from which someone has fallen and survived?

Joe Cool

"How you have fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of the dawn!" (Isaiah 14:12) Scholars interpret the victim of that fall to be Satan. Oct 20 03, 9:10 AM

TheBoyPipe

Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia. That's the official Guinness World Record. Oct 20 03, 10:20 AM

Senior Moments

Does she count as she was still in the tail section when it hit the earth? If she had been outside she probably would not have survived. Oct 20 03, 11:27 AM

sequoianoir

She actually made a full recovery. Vulovic was severely injured. She broke both her legs and was paralyzed from the waist down. She was in a coma for 27 days. Her recovery took 17 months. Having learned to walk again, she continued to fly with Yugoslav Airlines for 20 more years. Oct 20 03, 12:25 PM

Kainantu

These deserve a mention… Lt. I.M. Chisov,a Russian airman whose Ilyushin IL-4 bomber was attacked by German fighters in January of 1942, fell nearly 22,000 feet. He hit the edge of a snow-covered ravine and rolled to the bottom. He was badly hurt but survived. Alan Magee, a gunner on a B-17, in January of 1943, was thrown from his plane before he had a chance to put on his parachute when his bomber was set aflame by enemy fire. He fell 20,000 feet and crashed through the skylight of the St. Nazaire train station. His arm was badly injured, but he recovered from that and other injuries. In March of 1944, Nicholas Alkemade’s plane was attacked by German fighters. He chose to jump without a parachute rather than to stay in the burning plane. He fell 18,000 feet, landing in trees, underbrush, and drifted snow. He twisted his knee and had some cuts, but was otherwise alright. http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html Oct 20 03, 7:02 PM