Near Death experiences?

[tekeenator]

This story I missed last month really was out of the ordinary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6369923.stm

 

[Lucky 7]

And I thought I was Lucky!

that's gotta be some kinda record . . . 32,000 feet, better her than me!

 

[The Uncola]

I remember reading about a Czech female who was the sole survivor in an airplane crash caused by a hijacker's bomb. The plane exploded 30,000 feet high and she survived only b/c she was in the tail section of the plane and the tail landed in deep snow. I read about this in the book "Strange But True"- way back in the day. (20 years ago). She was a flight attendant. Maybe I could find something about this on the 'net.

The highest I have ever been on this planet was 18,400' when I was in the Everest Area of Nepal. (Kala Patar). I also was at 17,769 at the high point of the Annapurna Trek. (Thorung La Pass).

 

[Hoam Groan]

That is incredible..

 

[brah]

oh SNAP

 

[Guest]

That just scares me thinking about it. Someone was watching over her.

 

[genkisan]

I remember reading about a Czech female who was the sole survivor in an airplane crash caused by a hijacker's bomb. The plane exploded 30,000 feet high and she survived only b/c she was in the tail section of the plane and the tail landed in deep snow. I read about this in the book "Strange But True"- way back in the day. (20 years ago). She was a flight attendant. Maybe I could find something about this on the 'net.

The highest I have ever been on this planet was 18,400' when I was in the Everest Area of Nepal. (Kala Patar). I also was at 17,769 at the high point of the Annapurna Trek. (Thorung La Pass).

Vesna Vulović (Serbian: Весна Вуловић) (born 3 January 1950) holds the Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (6.31 miles, or 33,000 feet).

The fall occurred on January 26, 1972, over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Croatian extremists terrorists had placed a bomb on board JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, on which Vulović was a flight attendant. The explosion tore the DC-9-32 to pieces, but Vulović survived. She remained strapped into her seat in the tail section of the plane that was still attached to the washrooms. The assembly struck the snow-covered flank of a mountain.

The 22-year old was not scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another stewardess named Vesna.

Vulović was the only survivor on the flight. She continued working for JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae, one of which was crushed and left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs only after surgery.

Vulović was awarded the Guinness Record title by Paul McCartney at a ceremony.

And another:

In March of 1944, Nicholas Alkemade was the tail gunner in a British Lancaster bomber on a night mission to Berlin when his plane was attacked by German fighters. When the captain ordered the crew to bail out, Alkemade looked back into the plane and discovered that his parachute was in flames. He chose to jump without a parachute rather than to stay in the burning plane. He fell 18,000 feet, landing in trees, underbrush, and drifted snow. He twisted his knee and had some cuts, but was otherwise alright.

And some G force records:

Strongest g-forces survived by humans

Voluntarily: Colonel John Stapp in 1954 sustained 46.2 g in a rocket sled, while conducting research on the effects of human deceleration. See Martin Voshell (2004), 'High Acceleration and the Human Body'.

Involuntarily: Formula One racing car driver David Purley survived an estimated 178 g in 1977 when he decelerated from 173 km·h−1 (108 mph) to 0 in a distance of 66 cm (26 inches) after his throttle got stuck wide open and he hit a wall.

 

[genkisan]

The story of Phineas Gage always blew me away:


http://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/Pgdamage.php

 

[genkisan]

And this one:

Man survives horror nail gun accident
May 6, 2004 - 11:34AM

Six nails can be seen embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia.

A Los Angeles construction worker who had six nails driven into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun is expected to make a full recovery, doctors said today.

Isidro Mejia made his first public appearance today since the April 19 accident that left him with nails embedded in his face, neck and skull. He told reporters in Spanish from his wheelchair that he does not remember much about the accident, but is grateful to be alive.

"He told me this morning that he thought he was going to die. He was happy when he opened his eyes, and he saw that he's still with us," said Dr. Rafael Quinonez, a neurosurgeon who removed the nails at Providence Holy Cross Medical Centre.

Mejia, 39, was building a home when he fell from the roof onto a co-worker using the nail gun on the second floor, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Mark Newlands said.

The two men tried to grab each other to keep from falling, but both tumbled to the ground. At some point, the nail gun discharged and drove the nails into Mejia's head.

"They're extremely powerful," Newlands said. "They've got to drive through three-quarter-inch (two centimetre) plywood."
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Three nails penetrated Mejia's brain, and one entered his spine below the base of his skull. Doctors said the nails barely missed his brain stem and spinal cord, which saved him from paralysis or death.

"We did not have too much hope that he would survive, but we did it and he survived," Quinonez said.

Five nails were removed the same day and the sixth, in Mejia's face, was removed April 23 after swelling went down, the hospital said.

Doctors expect a full recovery after he has undergone rehabilitation therapy.

The co-worker has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

 

[The Uncola]

Phineas Gage- That blows me away as well.

Crow bar through the head! That's gotta hurt.

They say he got to be a nasty guy after that.

I can only imagine how nasty I would get after that. Talk about a nasty drunk!

My brain is still relatively unscathed- And I am still NASTY!!

 

[jojajico]

ive nearlly died multiple times.... almost drowed once, actually twice not that i think about it and i can swim. the first time i was like alittle kid and had to be rescued the second time i was rafting and fell into the water at a point where most people die. the funny thing is everytime i think im gunna die i laugh. really hard actually i find my mortality halarious. this has happened maybe 4 or 5 times. go figure.

 

[OneWingedImp]

Surfing big waves, that crash and make huge suction underneath them. I remember going under and getting pushed HARD, down down down, then i felt my back hit the sand. I couldnt see anything and as i tried to get my feet under me to push of the bottom, i got swirled around REALLY hard, so hard i was scared lol. I was losing breath, and i ended up grabbing my leash, and pulling myslef up to my floating surfboard. It was really scary though, the kind of thing where you paddle in afterwards with a stone cold sober look on yourface, lookin like a wet cat.


Another time was in Italy, when i was just walking and exploring cliffs. I found this huge sloping surface of a cliff, of really hard packed sandstone stuff. It had gravel/sand stuff all over it and it was quite steep. Very steep, well i slowly started climbing up, and i REALLY had to go slow, cus the friction was minimal, it was like climbing uphill on a bed of marbles or something. Well i got to teh top of the 40 smooth slope part, looking 60 feet down below (it dropped off 20 feet at the bottom to the beach into a bed of large stones), and about halfway up i realized going down was going to be way harder, as if i get ANY momentum, imma either be sliding, or running full speeed down, and trying to slow myself? out of the question as there was no friction. I slipped one good time onto my stomach and stopped myself by grabbign onto the plants at the top where i had made my way too. What i ended up having to do was climb up like 4 feet verticle over plants and stuff to get to the top of the cliff, so that i didnt slide all the way down and die. Was really scary and VERY stupid.