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Vesna Vulovic

A flight attendant survived the highest fall without a parachute recorded by Guinness World Records.

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Nicholas AlkemadeNicholas Stephen Alkemade (10 December 1922 – 22 June 1987) was a British tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute after abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany. Juliane KoepckeJuliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. Nicholas AlkemadeA Royal Air Force gunner survived a fall of thousands of meters without a parachute.
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