1.
Vesna Vulovic: The Stewardess Who Survived a terrorist
attack at 33,000 feet.
On January 26, 1972, a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 departed
from Copenhagen for Belgrade (via Zagreb) with 28
passengers and crew. At an altitude of 33,000 feet, a
bomb in the cargo section, planted by the Ustashe
Croatian separatist group, exploded. The plane
disintegrated and crashed on the mountains.
In what must be one of the greatest survival stories of
all time, stewardess Vesna Vulovic survived the 33,000
foot descent sitting on the tail of the plane.
22 year old Vulovic wasn't even supposed to be on that
plane. As she later stated in an interview, it was another
Vesna who was supposed to be on that flight, but she
was happy with the mix-up as it allowed her to make
her first trip to Denmark. She ended up with a fractured
skull, two broken legs, and three broken vertebrae - one
of which was crushed and left her paralyzed from the
waist down.
Vulovic spent several months in and out of hospitals;
operations allowed her to walk again. She became a
celebrity when the Guinness Book of World Records
invited her to a ceremony in London with Paul
McCartney. She is listed for surviving the longest fall
without a parachute. Vulovic is now a national hero in
Serbia and spent the late 90s marching in Belgrade
against Slobodan Milosovic.

2.
Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!
Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later, Selak was flying, from Zagreb to Rijeka,
when a door abruptly blew away from the cockpit of the
plane, as he was blown off the plane. The accident killed
19 people, however, Selak was lucky enough to land on
a haystack, and wake up some days later in hospital,
with minor injuries.
It was in 1966 that he met with the third misadventure
while traveling on a bus that crashed and plunged into a
river. There were four people dead. Astonishingly, Selak
managed to escape unharmed again.
In 1970, Selak was driving along when, all of a sudden,
his car caught fire. He was fortunate again to have left
the car before the fuel tank exploded. Three years later,
another of Selak’s car caught fire, blowing flames
through the air vents. To a greater dismay, Selak's lost
most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when he was hit by a bus,
again leaving nothing but a few injuries. The following
year, while driving through a mountain road, Selak drove
off a guardrail to escape an oncoming truck and landed
on a tree to watch his car explode 300 feet below.
In a surprising turn of events in 2003, Selak won the
million-dollar Croatian lottery, turning the man into
either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s
luckiest one.

3.
Andes Survivors: Crashed on the Andes Mountains, lasted
72 days.
On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, a Uruguayan Air
Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over
the Andes carrying Stella Maris College's "Old
Christians" rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay,
to play a match in Santiago, Chile. When the plane was
flying through the pass in the mountains, the pilot
notified air controllers in Santiago that he was over
Curicó, Chile, and was cleared to descend. This would
prove to be a fatal error. Since the pass was covered by
the clouds, the pilots had to rely on the usual time
required to cross the pass (dead reckoning). However,
they failed to take into account strong headwinds that
ultimately slowed the plane and increased the time
required to complete the crossing. As a result, the turn
and descent was initiated too soon, before the plane had
passed through the mountains. Dipping into the cloud
cover while still over the mountains, the Fairchild soon
crashed on an unnamed peak (later called Glacier of
Tears), located between Chile and Argentina.
Twelve people died in the crash. Survivors not only had
to withstand the hunger and the fearful Mountains, but
also 30 degree-below-zero temperatures during the
night. They tried to survive with the scarce food
reserves they had until being rescued, but they lost their
hope when heard that the search had ceased on the
radio. Desperate owing to the lack of food and physically
exhausted, they were forced to feed themselves on their
death partners to keep on living. Finally fed up with the
extremely low temperatures and the avalanche threats,
as well as anguished by the continuos deaths of their
partners and the bad rescue prospects, two of them
decided to cross the huge mountains to reach Chile. On
22nd of December of 1972, after being isolated for 72
days, the World found out and knew there were 16
survivors that beat Death in the Andes mountains.

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fell from 2-storey building,still opened nairaland this night

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4
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Survived a Beam from a
Particle Accelerator
As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics
in Protvino, Bugorski used to work with the largest
Soviet particle accelerator, the Synchrotron U-70. On
July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning
piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to
failed safety mechanisms. Bugorski was leaning over the
piece of equipment when he stuck his head in the part
through which the proton beam was running. Reportedly,
he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns”, but did
not feel any pain. The beam measured about 200,000
rads when it entered Bugorski’s skull, and about 300,000
rads when it exited after colliding with the inside of his
head.
The left half of Bugorski’s face swelled up beyond
recognition, and over the next several days started
peeling off, showing the path that the proton beam
(moving near the speed of light) had burned through
parts of his face, his bone, and the brain tissue
underneath. As it was believed that about 500 to 600
rads is enough to kill a person, Bugorski was taken to a
clinic in Moscow where the doctors could observe his
expected demise. However, Bugorski survived and even
completed his Ph.D.. There was virtually no damage to
his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work
increased markedly. Bugroski completely lost hearing in
the left ear and only a constant, unpleasant internal
noise remained. The left half of his face was frozen, due
to the destruction of nerves, and does not age. He is
able to function perfectly well, save the fact that he has
occasional petit mal seizures and very occasional grand
mal seizures.

Life is full of mystery. Someone falls down the stairs and the next thing you know is, the person is Dead. Another person falls down 33,000 feets from a plane and Survives.

5.
Roy Sullivan: Struck by Lightning 7 Times
Roy Sullivan was a Virginia Forest Ranger who had an
incredible attraction to lightning... or rather lightning
had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year career as a
ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times -
and survived each jolt, but not unscathed. His seventh
strike put him in the Guinness Book of World Records:
In 1942, the first lightning strike shot through
Sullivan's leg and knocked his big toenail off.
In 1969, a second strike burned off his eyebrows and
knocked him unconscious.
In 1970, another strike left his shoulder seared.
In 1972, his hair was set on fire and Roy had to
dump a bucket of water over his head to cool off.
On August 7, 1973, another bolt ripped through his
hat and hit him on the head, set his hair on fire again,
threw him out of his truck and knocked his left shoe
off.
On June 5, 1976, a sixth strike in 1976 left him with
an injured ankle.
On June 25th, 1977, the last lightning bolt to hit Roy
Sullivan sent him to the hospital with chest and
stomach burns in 1977.
His wife was also struck once, when a sudden storm
welled up as she and her husband were out hanging
wash on the back yard clothesline. On September 28,
1983, Roy Sullivan died at age 71, reportedly of a self-
inflicted gunshot wound over troubles unrelated to
lightning.

6
Joe Simpson: Conquered Siula Grande, dropped 100ft
into an Ice Crevasse, crawled 3 days
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first to scale
the west peak of the Siula Grande, in the Peruvian
Andes. Disaster struck on the way down, and Yates
was forced to let a badly wounded Simpson drop 100
feet into an ice crevasse. Simpson survived the fall
and spent three days crawling back to base camp.

7
Truman Duncan: Cut in Two by a Train
Railroad switchman Truman Duncan fell off the front of
a moving train car. He was swept underneath and cut
in two. Despite losing both legs and a kidney, Duncan
called the paramedics on his cell phone, survived a
45-minute wait, and then persevered through 23
surgeries.

8
Aron Ralston: Amputated his lower right Arm to Survive
the Mountains
On May 2003, while Aron Ralston was on a
canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab,
Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm,
crushing it.
After trying for five days to lift and break the boulder,
desperation took him to great measures like carving
his name, date of birth and date of death into the
boulder, drinking his own urine because of lack of
water and videotaping his last goodbyes to his family.
Finally, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston decided to
bow his arm against a chockstone and snap the radius
and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse
tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then
used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons.
After Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by
park authorities and removed from under the boulder.
It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to
the boulder and left the ashes there.

9.
Robert Evans: Survived Being Hit by Car, Then Train
Hours Later.
"He got two ambulance rides last night," said the
police. "It's an extreme oddity that someone is hit by a
car and a train on the same night. I can't imagine that
this has ever happened before in Boulder." An early
morning of September 2008, 46-year-old homeless
man Robert Evans had a hit-and-run car accident, and
while walking back from the hospital to his camp, he
was knocked off a narrow railroad bridge into a creek
by a train, surviving the second accident in seven
hours. Police said Evans was hit by the railing of a
stairway on the side of the train. The railroad bridge is
only wide enough to accommodate the train tracks and
is not intended for pedestrians or other traffic.

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Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!
Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later, Selak was flying, from Zagreb to Rijeka,
when a door abruptly blew away from the cockpit of the
plane, as he was blown off the plane. The accident killed
19 people, however, Selak was lucky enough to land on
a haystack, and wake up some days later in hospital,
with minor injuries.
It was in 1966 that he met with the third misadventure
while traveling on a bus that crashed and plunged into a
river. There were four people dead. Astonishingly, Selak
managed to escape unharmed again.
In 1970, Selak was driving along when, all of a sudden,
his car caught fire. He was fortunate again to have left
the car before the fuel tank exploded. Three years later,
another of Selak’s car caught fire, blowing flames
through the air vents. To a greater dismay, Selak's lost
most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when he was hit by a bus,
again leaving nothing but a few injuries. The following
year, while driving through a mountain road, Selak drove
off a guardrail to escape an oncoming truck and landed
on a tree to watch his car explode 300 feet below.
In a surprising turn of events in 2003, Selak won the
million-dollar Croatian lottery, turning the man into
either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s
luckiest one.

God is really on his side.

These are really strong men.

10.
Mauro Prosperi: Survived 9 days in the Sahara Desert.
Prosperi, a keen endurance runner, took part in the
1994 Marathon des Sables (Marathon of the Sands) in
Morocco. Part way through the 6-day 233 kilometre
event a sandstorm caused Prosperi to lose his way. He
ended up disoriented and ran in the wrong direction,
ultimately running several hundred kilometres into
Algeria. After 36 hours he ran out of food and water.
He survived by drinking his own urine and eating bats
resident in an abandoned mosque and the occasional
snake found in the desert.
Not wishing to die a long drawn out death, Prosperi
attempted to commit suicide in the mosque by slitting
his wrists with a pen knife he had with him. The
attempt failed - lack of water had caused Prosperi's
blood to thicken and clotted the wound before he
died.
After nine days alone in the desert he was found by a
nomadic family and taken to an Algerian military camp
and from there to a hospital. He was 186 miles off
route, and reportedly had lost between 30 and 40
pounds (18 kg) in body weight.

deeobserver209: Life is full of mystery. Someone falls down the stairs and the next thing you know is the person is dead. Another person falls down 33,000 feets from a plane and survives.

You know! Had a friend who slipped on a stair in their house on 26th December 2010 didn't stand up afterwards.

I once saw a movie about this story but I can't remember the title. The guy get mind die!

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Aron Ralston: Amputated his lower right Arm to Survive
the Mountains
On May 2003, while Aron Ralston was on a
canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab,
Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm,
crushing it.
After trying for five days to lift and break the boulder,
desperation took him to great measures like carving
his name, date of birth and date of death into the
boulder, drinking his own urine because of lack of
water and videotaping his last goodbyes to his family.
Finally, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston decided to
bow his arm against a chockstone and snap the radius
and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse
tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then
used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons.
After Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by
park authorities and removed from under the boulder.
It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to
the boulder and left the ashes there.

This goes to show the ability of human willpower. To be split in half and survive, or to survive a multi thousand foot fall from a destroyed airplane. Not even Jackie Chan can pull that stunt



In other unrelated news, I want to thank the op, the moderator, my friends and followers well-wishers and enemies who told me it was impossible to reach front page. God bless you all.

myads890: I once saw a movie about this story but I can't remember the title. The guy get mind die!

127 Hours that's the name.

Pronmix: 127 Hours that's the name.

Thanks. You sharp

Wow!!! Those guys here are spectacular!!! Talk about the cat with 9lives!!!

Their time never reach..

Wow!!! Those guys here are spectacular!!! Talk about the cat with 9lives!!! *Sips my GUINNESS*

This made me remember the movie Final Destination
When death ready for you no escaping o

8 Aron Ralston: Amputated his lower right Arm to Survive the Mountains:
On May 2003, while Aron Ralston was on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm, crushing it.

After trying for five days to lift and break the boulder, desperation took him to great measures like carving his name, date of birth and date of death into the boulder, drinking his own urine because of lack of water and videotaping his last goodbyes to his family.
Finally, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston decided to bow his arm against a chockstone and snap the radius and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons.

After Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by park authorities and removed from under the boulder. It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to the boulder and left the ashes there.
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Wow!!! Bravest man in earth!

hmmm

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No. 11 : PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN : Escaped assasination attempt by the northern bad guys...





























By deciding not to go to Chibok to visit the parents of the kidnapped girls...

Interesting, death-defying stories indeed.

I think said na for film all this things dey happen,I no know said e dey happen for real life too








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Now we know

Pronmix: 2.
Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!
Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later, Selak was flying, from Zagreb to Rijeka,
when a door abruptly blew away from the cockpit of the
plane, as he was blown off the plane. The accident killed
19 people, however, Selak was lucky enough to land on
a haystack, and wake up some days later in hospital,
with minor injuries.
It was in 1966 that he met with the third misadventure
while traveling on a bus that crashed and plunged into a
river. There were four people dead. Astonishingly, Selak
managed to escape unharmed again.
In 1970, Selak was driving along when, all of a sudden,
his car caught fire. He was fortunate again to have left
the car before the fuel tank exploded. Three years later,
another of Selak’s car caught fire, blowing flames
through the air vents. To a greater dismay, Selak's lost
most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when he was hit by a bus,
again leaving nothing but a few injuries. The following
year, while driving through a mountain road, Selak drove
off a guardrail to escape an oncoming truck and landed
on a tree to watch his car explode 300 feet below.
In a surprising turn of events in 2003, Selak won the
million-dollar Croatian lottery, turning the man into
either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s
luckiest one.

This is just ridiculous.

Could only b God's wonderful handwork.