By January 1972, she had been with JAT for less than a year. She was twenty-two years old, in the early months of what she expected would be a long career in the air.
She was not, according to accounts she gave in subsequent interviews, originally scheduled for Flight 367 on January 26, 1972. The account she gave — that her assignment to the flight was the result of a scheduling mix-up involving another crew member with a similar name, also named Vesna — is documented across multiple sources. It is her own recollection of events from before the crash, a period for which she later had no memory. She could not confirm the scheduling mix-up from her own memories of the day; she reconstructed it from what she was told afterward.
What she has said about her attitude toward the assignment, once she received it, was that she was pleased. The Copenhagen stopover would give her the chance to see Denmark for the first time. She was looking forward to it.
## The Flight’s Other Passengers and Crew
Twenty-eight people boarded the aircraft for the Copenhagen–Zagreb leg of Flight 367. Twenty-three were passengers. The five-person crew consisted of Captain Ludvik Razdrih, First Officer Ratko Mihić, and three flight attendants including Vulović.
The passengers on that flight were, as on most commercial air travel of the era, a mixture of people whose individual circumstances and reasons for travel have largely faded from the historical record. They were traveling between Yugoslavia and Denmark for purposes of business, family, tourism, or transit. The routes between socialist Yugoslavia and Scandinavia in 1972 were not high-volume corridors; the aircraft was not full.