What is the highest altitude someone has free fallen and lived?

zbeckabee

1960 -- Altitude Record and Highest Parachute Jump: Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger jumps from a balloon at 102,800 feet on August 16th and sets a world high altitude parachute jump (where he breaks the sound barrier with his body) and freefall record that still stands today. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/history2.html Dec 14 06, 12:46 PM

elburcher

At least three airmen survived free falls of around 20,000 ft (6,000 m) without a parachute in the Second World War; Lt. I.M. Chisov was a Russian bomber pilot, Sgt. Alan Magee was an American gunner on a B-17, and Sgt. Nicholas Alkemade was a British gunner on a Lancaster bomber. It is estimated that a person free falling in the "box" position reaches a terminal velocity of around 120 mph (200 km/h) after a fall of just 1,000 ft (300 m), so the additional 19,000 ft (5,700 m) doesn't make these falls that much more dangerous, apart from the lack of oxygen at high altitude. All three men lost consciousness during their falls, and two of them landed on terrain covered in deep snow, which was probably a significant factor in the survivability of the falls. Vesna Vulović, 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 Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia, on January 26, 1972. She remained strapped into her flight attendant's seat in the tail section of the plane, which remained attached to the washrooms. The assembly struck the snow-covered flank of a mountain. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause. Vulović broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. No other passengers survived. [1] http://www.answers.com/topic/freefall Dec 14 06, 1:04 PM

What-A-Mess

With or without a parachute? With? See ZB's posting. Without? Vesna Vulovic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovic Dec 14 06, 1:04 PM

deuceu72

I'm looking for someone with no parachute.For example, a plane explodes in mid air.....A passenger falls to the ground. What is the highest altitude that someone has fallen with no parachute and lived? Dec 14 06, 1:04 PM

deuceu72

Vesna Vulovic.........Thats it! Thank you! Dec 14 06, 1:06 PM

skysmom65

Vesna Vulović (Serbian: Весна Вуловић) (born 3 January 1950) holds the Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (6.31 miles, or 33,000 feet). The fall occurred on January 26, 1972, over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Émigré Croat terrorists (Ustaša) had placed a bomb on board JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, on which Vulović was a flight attendant. The explosion tore the DC-9-32 to pieces, but Vulović survived. She remained strapped into her seat in the tail section of the plane that was still attached to the washrooms. The assembly struck the snow-covered flank of a mountain. The 22-year old wasn't scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another stewardess named Vesna. Vulović was the only survivor on the flight, and not only lived to tell about it, but continued working for JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae, one of which was crushed and left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs only after several months of successive surgeries. Vulović was awarded the Guinness Record title by Paul McCartney at a ceremony. She later became a national hero in Yugoslavia in the 1970s. http://www.answers.com/Vesna%20Vulovic Dec 14 06, 3:28 PM

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