Friday 12th April 2024
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Without a parachute (Quiz #511)

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Questions about people who have survived falls from aeroplanes without a parachute.

1. Alan Magee fell 22,000 feet (6,700 m) without a parachute after his B-17 bomber was shot down in 1943. What broke his fall, saving his life?

A. A herd of sheep

B. A tank full of sewage

C. The glass roof of a railway station

2. In 1971, Juliane Koepcke fell 10,000 feet (3,200 m) after her plane broke up in a thunderstorm. What further hardship did she have to endure after surviving the fall?

A. She had to find her way out of a rainforest

B. She had to climb down the pine tree in which she was stuck

C. She had to swim 500 metres to the shore of the lake in which she had landed

3. Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute (33,330 feet or 10,160 m) after her plane was blown up by a terrorist bomb. How was a food trolley involved in her survival?

A. The trolley trapped her in a section of the plane's fuselage, so she wasn't thrown out of the plane

B. After landing in snow, she survived on the food from the trolley while awaiting rescue

C. The trolley contained a tablecloth, which she was able to use as a makeshift parachute

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