JAT Flight JU 367
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 CG render of DC-9 YU-AHT
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| Date | January 26, 1972 |
| Type | Bombing |
| Site | Hinterhermsdorf, East Germany  |
| Passengers | 22 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Fatalities | 27 |
| Survivors | 1 |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 |
| Operator | Jugoslovenski Aerotransport |
| Tail number | YU-AHT |
| Flight origin | Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden  |
| Last stopover | Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark  |
| Destination | Zagreb Airport, Zagreb, Yugoslavia  |
Jugoslovenski Aerotransport Flight 367, registration YU-AHT, was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9-30 aircraft which exploded shortly after overflying Hinterhermsdorf, 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 upon impact on the ground; one crew member survived.
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[edit] Cause
The cause was attributed to Croatian Ustashe terrorists who had placed a bomb on the Serbian / Yugoslav plane.
The crash site was sealed off for 24 hours. This was reported by numerous local and international news outlets at the time. Yugoslavia was not officially part of the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact, but it held close ties with USSR and other communist regimes.
It is said that the surviving crew member, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell from 10,050 meters (33,000 feet). 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 survived. She continued working for the airline, holding a desk job.
[edit] Discovery Channel
This incident has been featured on two Discovery Channel programs, The FBI Files and MythBusters.
[edit] The FBI Files
In the episode Radical Resistance, FBI agents in cooperation with local police agencies went up against Otpor, a Croatian extremist terror group. A copy of a newspaper article about the disaster was displayed during the narration.[1]
[edit] MythBusters
In the episode Escape Slide Parachute, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman attempted to recreate the circumstances that allowed Vesna Vulović to survive the crash.[2]
