On January 26, 1972, a terrorist bomb exploded in a plane flying over what was then Czechoslovakia. The plane fell more than 33,000 feet and crashed into the side of a mountain. Vesna Vulovic, the only survivor, fell a distance equal to 26 Empire State Buildings without a parachute. The 22-year-old Serbian stewardess suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae (that left her temporarily paralyzed below the waist), and two broken legs. After being in a coma for 27 days, however, she eventually made a full recovery, regained the use of her legs, and retained no fear of flying. She became a national heroine in the former Yugoslavia and a political activist against Slobodan Miloševic.