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Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review
An anonymous reader writes "George Lucas claims there was 'a 50/50 chance' Indiana Jones could survive the atomic blast in Legend of the Crystal Skull by hiding inside a refrigerator. Dr. David Shechner subjects this claim to rigorous peer review, and his findings are not good news for people looking to hide from nukes in appliances."
"JAT stewardess Vesna Vulovi survived a fall of 33,000 feet (10,000 m)[7] on January 26, 1972 when she was aboard JAT Flight 367. The plane was brought down by explosives over Srbská Kamenice in the former Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall
Yes, not a rubber life raft, but it's not impossible to survive dropping out of the sky, just really freaking unlikely. Of course, that woman actually landed in part of the plane, broke her skull and was in a coma for 27 days. Probably not in a mood for serious ass kicking at that point, but she's no Indiana Jones either.
You forgot to include the actual paper, although your comment also appears to state that you haven't actually read it. It's chock-full of bad puns.
The second in the world-record list of "people falling from the sky" is more bizzare. I read it in the "book of general ignorance". The name was Alkemade and he served on a British bomber during WW2 (the name is Dutch though). He fell 6km if I remember correctly by himself (not sitting on the plain chair or something), landed hitting trees and finally snow, had a cigarette and walked away...