The 2024 TV4 documentary — “Hard Facts” — represented a significant new moment in the retrospective attention to the crash, specifically on the perpetrators question. By presenting the archival material from Yugoslav security services that named specific individuals as suspected perpetrators, the documentary moved the story beyond the general attribution to “Croatian nationalist groups” that had characterized most previous accounts. Whether this new material will lead to any formal legal or official process remains to be seen; as of October 2026, no charges have been filed as a result of the documentary’s revelations.
The families of the twenty-seven victims continue to mark the anniversary. The woman who lost her mother and two brothers, interviewed in the TV4 documentary, spoke about what fifty years of waiting for an accounting has meant. Her testimony serves as a reminder that the story of JAT Flight 367 is not primarily a story about the one person who survived. It is a story about twenty-eight people who were on a commercial flight on January 26, 1972, and the catastrophe that overtook them.
## What Happened When She Tried to Go Back: The Desk Job Years
The transition from flight attendant to freight contract negotiator sounds, in abbreviated form, like a career adjustment. In the context of Vulović’s life, it was something more complicated than that. She had joined JAT because she wanted to fly. The crash had not changed that desire. The airline’s refusal to let her fly again — predicated on the publicity problem rather than any declared medical incapacity — placed her in a position of doing work she had not chosen in a building that belonged to the airline whose aircraft had blown up around her.