redshift said:
You mean Flight Sgt Alkemade, who was a rear gunner in a Lancaster, who opted to jump, rather than die in the aircraft? Not a woman, IIRC.
Five points to Shifty
Marinyork may very well have been thinking about
Vesna Vulović, who holds the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (33,316 feet).
For the record, Nick Alkemade fell 18,045 feet (5500 meters)
Other incidents include Alan Eugene Magee, an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000 foot (6,700 meter) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress over Saint-Nazaire, France (crashing through the glass roof of the railway station), and I.M. Chisov, a Soviet Airforce Lieutenant who is notable for surviving a fall of nearly 22,000 feet in January 1942.