crewman who survived falling from his burning aircraft in 1944 Ivan Chisov, Soviet Air Force lieutenant who survived falling from his Ilyushin Il-4 bomber in 1942 Juliane Koepcke, German teenager who survived a fall after her Lockheed Electra flight broke up over the Peruvian Amazon. Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant who survived the mid-air bombing of her McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in 1972 and holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute Other Freefall List of sole survivors of aviation accidents or incidents References External links Check-Six.com - The Free-Fall of Alan Magee 1919 births 2003 deaths Deaths from kidney failure Fall survivors Recipients of the Air Medal Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents United States Army Air Forces soldiers United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany American prisoners of war in World War II