JAT Flight 364

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**JAT Airways Flight 364**
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 accident; one crewmember survived.

The bomb was placed by émigré Croat Ustaša extremists. The attack occurred amid a purge of Croatian leaders and intellectuals by Yugoslav authorities.

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.