"There is another world, but it is in this one."
- Ewa Wisnierska
- 35 year old Polish paraglider
- did not technically fall, but ok seriously, what the fuck
- key themes: lightning, miraculous survival against all odds, the other guy died, she continues to be a champion paraglider
- Juliane Kopcke
- 17 year old German student
- key themes: Werner Herzog (who was supposed to be on the flight); Aguirre, Wrath of God; miraculous lone survival; narrow misses; failed expeditions; bats (she is now a renowned mammologist)
- OMG bats, also coming up a lot lately
- from NYT
- Vesna Vulovic
- 22 year old Serbian flight attendant
- possibly the craziest story of all, possibly a mistake and cover up by the Yugoslav Air Force
- key themes: miraculous lone survival, German medic found and treated her, amnesia, political activism later in life
- name means "messenger" or "springtime"
- Autumn Veatch
Ok, I don't know how crazy to get with this, but I think that if I unravel the secret connections between these events, the meaning of life might be revealed.
You may be witnessing my total descent/devolution into conspiracism.