## What Remains Unresolved
Fifty-four years after the explosion destroyed JAT Flight 367 at 10,160 meters above the Bohemian hills, several of the most significant questions about the event remain without final answers.
The question of who built and placed the bomb has never been officially resolved. The investigation identified a most likely point of loading — Copenhagen — and Yugoslav security services developed specific suspicions about specific individuals linked to Croatian nationalist organizations. The 2024 TV4 documentary surfaced archival material from Yugoslav security files naming seven individuals. No arrests have been made. No convictions have been obtained. The case is, in formal legal terms, unsolved.
The question of exactly what physical factors made Vulović’s survival possible has also never been definitively resolved. The food trolley, the blood pressure, the snow, the slope, the fuselage entrapment — these are the identified contributing variables. Their relative importance, and the question of whether any single one of them was the decisive factor without which she would not have survived, is not answerable from the available evidence.
The age discrepancy — was she twenty-two or twenty-three at the time of the crash? — is a minor unresolved detail that has persisted in the record because the Guinness retrospective used a figure inconsistent with her documented date of birth. She was born January 3, 1950. The crash occurred January 26, 1972. She had turned twenty-two approximately three weeks before the crash. The Guinness retrospective’s figure of twenty-three is an error by one year. It is the kind of small factual discrepancy that persists in records because authoritative sources sometimes fail to update when the underlying data is clarified.