triumph of victory, err, errata

The NY Times this morning has an article about Vesna Vulovic, the Serbian stewardess, who holds a Guiness Book record for surviving a 33,000 foot fall after her airliner was blown up.  The article was unclear as to whether she air-surfed down herself or was part of the falling cloud of wreckage, so I ask Mr. Interwebs to clear things up.

An hour later, not only have I found that the "equal transit time" theory I was using to explain airplane lift to Frank for his report was mostly wrong, but I discover this brilliant movie, based on a true story, of what it's like to actually live the two and a half minutes it takes to come down from 20,000 feet, based a guy who got blown out of his B-17 in WWII and survived the fall.  One of my personal nightmare/fantasy scenarios. 

(See also the Pink Floyd song "The Gunner's Dream").  Needless to say, I'm not going to share the nightmare movie with him.  Ah, here he is now.