On Thursday I fly to Podgorica, the capital city of Montenegro, which nestles above the Zeta plain, a vast, fertile lowland once home to the Eurasian Avar tribe of warriors. I'm there to make a video for The Twang's forthcoming single 'Barney Rubble'. Claire is actually commissioning it, but is unable to attend the shoot due to ATP commitments. DARYL from Pulse Films are directing.
I'm going to be flying on JAT Airways. Despite being ranked 96th among the 112 international carrier members of the IATA (International Air Transport Association) in 1987, JAT has an appalling safety record. Their most notorious accident occurred on 26th January 1972 when flight 367 broke up over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia - now the Czech Republic - following a mid air explosion. All the passengers and crew members were killed except for Vesna Vulović, a Serbian flight attendant, who fell 33,333 feet and then crawled miraculously from the twisted fuselage, suffering only a fractured skull and two broken legs. (According to the Guinness Book of Records, this is the highest fall ever to be survived without a parachute.)
In Your Face managed to track Vesna down to her new home in Dalston and politely attempted to solicit an interview with her, to which she replied, through a miasma of fortified wine:
"Go fuck yourselves".
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