3-Mile Fall Gets Her $50 for Luggage
A woman passenger survived a fall of three miles from a Soviet airliner and then won $50 compensation for the loss of her luggage.
Larisa Savitska plunged to Earth from an Aeroflot plane after it collided in midair with a military aircraft.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said she was the only survivor when the AN-24 airliner and a military transport collided near the Chinese border in 1981. The incident had been kept secret.
The newspaper said Savitska is still recovering from her injuries and must travel regularly to Moscow and Vladivostok for treatment.
The article did not say how Savitska had escaped death.
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