5. Damn Interesting — “Vesna’s Fall” (damninteresting.com, accessed October 2026). Source for food cart position details, coma timeline, memory gap details, recovery narrative, Philip Baum 2002 interview (“I’m not lucky”), and optimism quotes.
6. Amusing Planet — “Vesna Vulovic’s 33,000 Feet Fall” (amusingplanet.com, September 2022). Source for name-confusion story (scheduling mix-up), bomb timeline (46 minutes after Copenhagen departure, 4:01 p.m.), folk song by Miroslav Ilić, and Paul McCartney details.
7. N1 Info — “New revelations on 1972 JAT plane explosion unveil possible perpetrators” (n1info.rs, October 12, 2024). Source for 2024 TV4 “Hard Facts” documentary, journalist Tonci Percan’s investigation, suspects linked to Croatian National Resistance and Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood, Josip Šenić named in UDBA archives, survivors’ denials.
8. Statesboro Herald/Associated Press — “Survivor of dramatic fall from bombed airliner uses celebrity to campaign for reform in Serbia” (statesboroherald.com, 2008). Source for political activism details, Democratic Party involvement, 2008 election campaign context, her quotes: “I thought I was done with politics” and “I don’t assume I will make a huge difference.”
**Key notes on disputed or uncertain elements:**
– **Age at time of crash:** Guinness retrospective states she was 23; Wikipedia’s biography (birth date January 3, 1950) and some other sources state she was 22 at the crash (January 26, 1972). The article uses 22, consistent with her January 1950 birth date and a January 1972 crash; she turned 22 approximately three weeks before the crash.
– **Coma duration:** Sources vary. Some say “27 days,” others “up to a month,” one says “three days.” The article uses “approximately a month” with a note that accounts vary, consistent with the Wikipedia figure of 27 days.