She remembered greeting passengers for the flight, and then nothing until she saw her parents in her hospital room. From the hour preceding the crash until almost a month afterward, Vulović had no idea what had happened. In addition to her extensive bodily injuries and her fractured skull, her brain had also hemorrhaged and she had total amnesia. From the crash, Vulović had sustained two broken legs, three broken vertebrae, a fractured pelvis, broken ribs, and a fractured skull.Īfter being taken to a hospital in Prague, Vesna Vulović spent several days in a coma recovering. YouTube Vesna Vulović recovering in the hospital.įortunately, Bruno Honke, the villager who discovered her, had been a medic during World War II and was able to keep her alive until rescuers arrived. Of the 28 passengers and crew, Vesna Vulović was the only survivor. The aircraft broke apart in mid-air before falling 33,330 feet down to the ground in Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. Just 46 minutes into the fight, disaster struck.Īt 4:01 PM, there was an explosion in the baggage compartment.
The new passengers boarded and the flight eventually took off at 3:15 PM.
The captain, Vulović would later recall, spent 24 hours locked in his room, refusing to go out at all.Īt 1:30 PM on January 26, 1972, the crew met Flight 367 at the Copenhagen Airport and watched as the passengers and previous crew deplaned. While Vulović had been hoping to go sightseeing, the rest of the group seemed focused on shopping and sitting in the hotel. When she arrived, however, she found a downtrodden crew. Having never been to Denmark, Vulović considered it yet another opportunity to travel. Though she realized that JAT had confused her with another attendant named Vesna, she agreed to join anyway. YouTube The wreckage of the JAT Flight 367 crash.Įight months into her flight attendant career, Vesna Vulović was told to join the crew of JAT Flight 367, flying from Stockholm to Belgrade with a stopover in Copenhagen.
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