Well, you've most likely seen skydiver Michael Holmes' brush with death. If not, have a gander at the movie below...
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Although Michael fell 12,000ft with a half open parachute, the all time free fall survival record is held by a Serbian woman called Vesna Vuloviç.
In 1972 she was an air stewardess on board a JAT DC-9 travelling from Copenhagen to Zagreb that was blown up by Croatian nationalists over the Czech Republic.
She fell over 33,000ft and landed still strapped to her chair, nestled in the tail cone of the wrecked plane.
Despite having a fractured skull, brain hemorrhaging, two broken legs, three broken vertebrae, being in a coma for four days and being paralysed from the waist down, she managed to make a considerable recovery and walk again.
Click here to read a full interview with the remarkable lady...
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