Qualla: JAT Flight 367 https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: JAT Flight 367 https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367 JAT Flight 367: Introduction https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. A villager named Bruno Honke heard screaming coming from the wreck. It was the afternoon of 26 January 1972, in the wooded hills near Srbská Kamenice in northern Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, and a broken section of a Yugoslav airliner lay in the snow. Honke had served as a medic in the Second World War. He found a twenty-two-year-old flight attendant, Vesna Vulović, alive inside the fuselage and kept her going until rescuers reached the site. The other twenty-seven people aboard JAT Flight 367 were dead. What happened in the minutes before Honke started running has never been fully settled, and more than fifty years later it is still contested.

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/u341-jat-flight-367-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full JAT Flight 367: The Wrong Vesna https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. Vulović was not supposed to be working that day. By her own account the airline had confused her with another flight attendant who shared her first name, and she had been flying for only eight months. The DC-9-32, registration YU-AHT, left Stockholm Arlanda at 1:30 in the afterno...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/u341-jat-flight-367-the-wrong-vesna.mp3 0:06 2 full JAT Flight 367: Somewhere Above Hinterhermsdorf https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. Captain Ludvik Razdrih and First Officer Ratko Mihić took the aircraft southeast across Germany. Shortly after passing the Hermsdorf radio beacon, near Hinterhermsdorf in what is now the municipality of Sebnitz, the DC-9 came apart. It broke into three pieces, spun out of control...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/u341-jat-flight-367-somewhere-above-hinterhermsdorf.mp3 0:06 3 full JAT Flight 367: The Briefcase and the Phone Call https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. The Czechoslovak Civil Aviation Authority concluded that a briefcase bomb had destroyed the aircraft. Yugoslav authorities suspected émigré Croatian nationalists, and there was reason to look that way: on the same day, a bomb went off aboard a train running from Vienna to Zagreb,...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/u341-jat-flight-367-the-briefcase-and-the-phone-call.mp3 0:06 4 full JAT Flight 367: What the Record Cannot Settle https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. The official account has been challenged for decades. In 1997 the Czech aviation periodical Letectví a kosmonautika suggested the aircraft had been shot down in error by Czechoslovak air defences, and in January 2009 the German broadcaster Tagesschau carried an investigation by P...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/1/jat-flight-367-wp/u341-jat-flight-367-what-the-record-cannot-settle.mp3 0:06 5 full JAT Flight 367: A Record She Never Asked For https://qualla.com/jat-flight-367/ Photo credit Karel x, Public domain. Vulović lay in a coma for twenty-seven days and woke temporarily paralysed from the waist down. She learned to walk again. She said she remembered nothing between greeting passengers and waking in hospital, and that she had been told she was found in the middle section of the air...

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