JAT Flight 364
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| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | January 26, 1972 |
| Type | Bombing |
| Site | Hermsdorf, East Germany |
| Fatalities | 27 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 |
| Operator | JAT Airways |
| Tail number | YU-AHT |
| Passengers | 22 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Survivors | 1 |
JAT Airways Flight 364, registration YU-AHT, was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 aircraft which exploded over Hermsdorf, East Germany while en route from Copenhagen to Zagreb and Belgrade on January 26, 1972. The aircraft spun out of control, crashing near the town of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). 27 of 28 of those on board were killed in the explosion; one crewmember survived.
The explosion was caused by a bomb placed by émigré Croat Ustaša extremists.
The surviving crewmember, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell from 10,160 meters (33,330 feet) inside the tail section of the aircraft. She was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute. Vulović was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down but lived to tell about it. She continued working for the airline, holding a desk job.
This incident was mentioned on episodes of Discovery Channel's The FBI Files and MythBusters.
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- Guinness Book Record
- Tv.Com - The FBI Files: Radical Resistance (Reference to Flight 364)
- Airliners.Net: Picture of YU-AHT
- PlaneCrashInfo.Com: Entry on Flight 364
- Aviation Safety Network: Entry on Flight 364
- JAT 364 Memorial
