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vivo X Fold3 Pro Global-APRIL 2026 update
- By ironass
- Smartphones
- 0 Replies
vivo have begun rolling out the April 2026 security patch to their global models of the X Fold3 Pro. Along with the patch are a few other optimisations, as detailed in the screenshot, below.
Interesting pictures
- By olbriar
- Funny / Meme
- 164 Replies
In January 1972, a scheduling mix-up put 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović on a flight she was never meant to work. A colleague with the same first name had been assigned, but the error went unnoticed — and Vesna, easygoing and unbothered, simply showed up and boarded.
Forty-five minutes after JAT Flight 367 left Copenhagen, a bomb hidden inside a suitcase detonated in the front luggage hold. The aircraft didn't gradually descend. It came apart instantly, at 33,000 feet, over the frozen mountains of Czechoslovakia.
Everyone aboard was flung into the open sky. But Vesna wasn't.
She was working in the tail section when the explosion hit. A food trolley slammed into her, pinning her body against the fuselage. It was the very thing that saved her. While the others disappeared into the clouds above, she stayed — trapped inside a crumpling tube of metal that was now in complete freefall.
The tail section fell over six miles. It struck a steep, snow-covered mountainside at the edge of a small village — the slope and the snowpack absorbing just enough of the impact to keep what was inside from being destroyed entirely.
In the darkness of the wreckage, among the silence of the trees, something moved.
She was screaming.
A local man named Bruno Honke — a former medic who had served in the Second World War — heard her first. He pushed through the snow and wreckage and found a young woman alive inside something no person should have survived.
Her injuries were devastating. A fractured skull. Three broken vertebrae. Both legs shattered. Doctors told her family to prepare for the worst — and even if she lived, she would certainly never walk again.
They didn't know Vesna Vulović.
After 16 months of surgeries and relentless rehabilitation, she walked out of the hospital on her own two feet. The medical staff, who had once doubted her survival, watched in stunned silence.
She went back to work for the same airline.
She never developed a fear of flying.
She became a national hero in Yugoslavia.
And she holds a record that has stood for over 50 years: the greatest height ever survived in a free fall without a parachute — recognized by Guinness World Records.
The mix-up that put her on that flight should have ended her story before it began.
Instead, it gave the world one of the most remarkable stories of survival ever recorded.
Some people are just not finished yet.
Forty-five minutes after JAT Flight 367 left Copenhagen, a bomb hidden inside a suitcase detonated in the front luggage hold. The aircraft didn't gradually descend. It came apart instantly, at 33,000 feet, over the frozen mountains of Czechoslovakia.
Everyone aboard was flung into the open sky. But Vesna wasn't.
She was working in the tail section when the explosion hit. A food trolley slammed into her, pinning her body against the fuselage. It was the very thing that saved her. While the others disappeared into the clouds above, she stayed — trapped inside a crumpling tube of metal that was now in complete freefall.
The tail section fell over six miles. It struck a steep, snow-covered mountainside at the edge of a small village — the slope and the snowpack absorbing just enough of the impact to keep what was inside from being destroyed entirely.
In the darkness of the wreckage, among the silence of the trees, something moved.
She was screaming.
A local man named Bruno Honke — a former medic who had served in the Second World War — heard her first. He pushed through the snow and wreckage and found a young woman alive inside something no person should have survived.
Her injuries were devastating. A fractured skull. Three broken vertebrae. Both legs shattered. Doctors told her family to prepare for the worst — and even if she lived, she would certainly never walk again.
They didn't know Vesna Vulović.
After 16 months of surgeries and relentless rehabilitation, she walked out of the hospital on her own two feet. The medical staff, who had once doubted her survival, watched in stunned silence.
She went back to work for the same airline.
She never developed a fear of flying.
She became a national hero in Yugoslavia.
And she holds a record that has stood for over 50 years: the greatest height ever survived in a free fall without a parachute — recognized by Guinness World Records.
The mix-up that put her on that flight should have ended her story before it began.
Instead, it gave the world one of the most remarkable stories of survival ever recorded.
Some people are just not finished yet.
Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?
- Off Topic
- 15846 Replies
I hate it when I l0se track 0f time, I th0ught it was eight weeks t0day since I sprained, but h0ly heck in a h0ly pearl!
0nly been f0ur!!! What...wh0 put this curse 0n me???? GRRRRRRRRRRRR... Me wanna feel better
0nly been f0ur!!! What...wh0 put this curse 0n me???? GRRRRRRRRRRRR... Me wanna feel better
