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List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents

This list includes sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents that involved ten or more onboard. Within this list, "sole survivor" refers to a person who survived an air accident in which all other aircraft occupants died as a direct consequence of the accident. This list does not include initial survivors who later died (possibly in another location) due to injuries sustained during the accident. Also not included are the numerous incidents of sole survivors of accidents and combat losses related to heavy bombers during World War II which frequently had ten or more crewmembers.

Notable examples

Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia.

The earliest known sole survivor is Linda McDonald. On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash near Pittsburgh that killed nine other people, including her boyfriend.[1] She was 17 at the time.

The youngest sole survivor is Chanayuth Nim-anong, who on 3 September 1997, survived a crash when he was just 14 months old. He was the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines Flight 815, which had 65 deaths in total. The oldest sole survivor is Alexander Sizov, who was 52 years old when YAK-Service Flight 9633 crashed on 7 September 2011, with 44 fatalities.

Another sole survivor is a former Serbian flight attendant, Vesna Vulović. According to the Guinness Book of Records she holds the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 10,160 metres (33,330 ft) from JAT Flight 367. Some controversy arose in 2009 when her story was reported as possible communist propaganda, but flight recorder data strongly supported the official story.[2]

Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was an American trumpet player, vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the Stax recording group the Bar-Kays. He was the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that resulted in the deaths of soul singer Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays.

One of the more controversial lone survivors was Huang Yu (Chinese: 黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù), who tried to hijack the Cathay Pacific aircraft Miss Macao in 1948, but ended up crashing the plane, killing the other 25 people on board.[3]

The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.[4][5]

List

DateSole survivor (if known)Age[a]P/COperatorFlight / informationFatalitiesNotesSource
17 March 1929Lou Foote34CColonial Western AirlinesNewark crash14[6]
22 August 1930Vojtěch KrausPCSA Ceskoslovenske AerolinieJihlava crash12[7]
31 December 1935Vernon Gorry Wilson33CImperial AirwaysNile crash near Alexandria12[8]
5 September 1936Linda McDonald17PSkywaySkyway sightseeing plane9[1]
24 September 1936CAla LittoriaCANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi9[9]
17 November 1939CSpanish Air ForceCap Juby Ju 52 ditching10[10]
9 April 1940Ogwyn GeorgeCRAFSylling crash9[11]
30 October 1941Clarence Bates41CNorthwest AirlinesNorthwest Airlines Flight 514[12]
25 August 1942Sgt Andrew Jack20CRoyal Air ForceDunbeath Air Crash15[13]
22 January 1943John Alfred Howard26PPan American-Grace AirwaysFlight 914[14]
14 June 1943Foye Kenneth Roberts22PU.S. Army Air ForcesBakers Creek air crash40[15]
5 September 1946Peter Link3PTrans-Luxury AirlinesCalifornia Trans-Luxury Airlines20[16]
12 January 1947William Ellis Keyes, Jr.25PEastern AirlinesFlight 66518[17]
28 January 1947Paul Ashton Vick1PChina National Aviation CorporationHankou crash25[18]
1 February 1947Eugene Leonard38PAir FranceLisbon mountain crash15[19]
10 March 1948Tripolina Meo33PDelta Air LinesFlight 70512[20][21]
15 April 1948Mark WorstPPan AmFlight 1–1030[22][23]
12 May 1948MoutafisPSabenaSabena Douglas DC-4 crash31[24][25]
17 July 1948Huang Yu[b]24PCathay PacificMiss Macao25[3]
20 November 1949Isaac Allal12PAero HollandHurum air disaster34[26][27]
24 May 1950Olga Rada10PLANSAGaleras Douglas C-4725[28][29]
27 July 1950Sgt. Haru SazakiPU.S. Air ForceDouglas C-4725[30][31]
17 May 1953Hazel Cox21PDelta Air LinesFlight 31819[32]
6 January 1954P/O P. D. CliffPRAFAldbury Valetta accident16[33]
17 March 1957Nestor Mata31PPhilippine Air ForceCebu Douglas C-47 crash25[34]
1 May 1957Ernest TaylorPEagle Aviation LimitedBlackbushe Viking accident34[35]
16 January 1959PAustral Líneas AéreasFlight 20551[36]
30 October 1959Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley33PPiedmont AirlinesFlight 34926[37][38]
1 December 1959Louis MatarazzoPAllegheny AirlinesFlight 37125[39]
14 April 1965Dominique Silliere22CBritish United AirwaysBritish United Airways Flight 1030X26[40]
25 April 1967Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet29CU.S. Air ForceLockheed EC-121H Super Constellation15[41]
29 February 1968Vassily AndrienkoPAeroflotFlight 1583[42]
9 March 1968Nrs. Michèle RenardPGroupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM)Douglas DC-6B[fr]19[43]
4 May 1970Capt. George A. Burk28PU.S. Air ForceT-29 Convair13[44]
9 August 1970Juan Loo26CLANSAFlight 50299[45]
6 June 1971Lt. Christopher E. Schiess24CUnited States Marine CorpsF-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 70650[46][47]
24 December 1971Juliane Koepcke17PLANSAFlight 50891[48]
26 January 1972Vesna Vulović22CJAT YugoslavFlight 36727[49]
22 July 1973Neil James CampbellPPan AmFlight 81678[50]
30 May 1979John McCafferty16PDowneast AirlinesFlight 4617[51]
24 August 1981Larisa Savitskaya20PAeroflotFlight 81131[52][53]
2 September 1981Remberto Aparicio26PTaxi Aéreo El VenadoEmbraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa21[54][55]
30 April 1983AT2 Melissa Kelly30PU.S. NavyConvair C-13114[56]
23 December 198427PAeroflotFlight 3519110[57]
21 January 1985George Lamson Jr.17PGalaxy AirlinesFlight 20370[49]
22 February 1985OuologuemPAir MaliAir Mali (TZ-ACT) crash51[58][59]
3 January 1987Neuba Yessoh DamasePVARIGFlight 79750[60][61]
16 August 1987Cecelia Cichan[c]4PNorthwest AirlinesFlight 255156[48]
8 December 1987Lt. Edilberto VillarCPeruvian NavyAlianza Lima air disaster43Captain of the flight.[63]
11 December 1988Fahraddin BalaevPSoviet Air Force1988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash77[64]
5 October 1991Bambang SumadiPIndonesian Air ForceIndonesian Air Force A-1324 crash135[65]
14 November 1992Annette Herfkens31PVietnam AirlinesFlight 47430[66]
26 December 1993PKuban AirlinesFlight GW-5719[ru]35[67][68]
11 January 1995Erika Delgado9PIntercontinental de AviaciónFlight 25652[49]
21 September 1995Ulziibayar Sanjaa27PMIAT Mongolian AirlinesFlight 55742[69]
7 December 1996Irianto40PDirgantara Air ServiceFlight 594018[70]
3 September 1997Chanayuth Nim-anong14 monthsPVietnam AirlinesFlight 81565The final report on this accident states that there were two survivors.[71][72]
15 December 1997Sergei Petrov37CTajik AirFlight 318385Served as the navigator.[73][74]
6 March 2003Youcef Djillali28PAir AlgérieFlight 6289102[74]
8 July 2003Mohammed el-Fateh Osman2PSudan AirwaysFlight 139116[49][75]
19 January 2006Lt. Martin FarkašPSlovak Air ForceSlovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash42[49]
27 August 2006James M. Polehinke44CComairFlight 519149First officer of Flight 5191.[76]
9 January 2007Abdülkadir AkyüzPAerianTur-MBalad aircraft crash34[77]
26 August 20072PGreat Lakes Business CompanyKongolo Antonov An-32B crash14[78]
8 October 2008Surendra KunwarCYeti AirlinesFlight 10318[79]
12 March 2009Robert Decker28PCougar HelicoptersFlight 9117[80]
30 June 2009Bahia Bakari12PYemeniaFlight 626152[48]
12 May 2010Ruben van Assouw9PAfriqiyah AirwaysFlight 771103[48][81][82]
25 August 2010PFilairBandundu Filair Let L-410 crash20[83]
4 April 2011Francis MwambaPGeorgian Airways / United NationsUnited Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash32[84]
7 September 2011Alexander Sizov52CYak-Service2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash44Oldest sole survivor as of 2024.[85][86]
11 February 2014Nimer Djelloul21PAlgerian Air ForceAlgerian Air Force 7T-WHM crash77[87][88]
18 May 2018Mailen Diaz Almaguer19PCubana de AviaciónFlight 972112[89][90][91]
14 January 2019Farshad MahdavinejadCSaha AirlinesSaha Airlines Boeing 707 crash15Served as the flight engineer.[92][93]
24 November 2019Muma EmmanuelPBusy Bee Congo2019 Busy Bee Congo crash26[94]
25 September 2020Viacheslav Zolochevsky20PUkrainian Air Force2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash26[95]

Notes

Bibliography

  • Darby, Paul; Johnes, Martin; Mellor, Gavin (2005). Soccer and disaster (2005 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-8289-1. - Total pages: 193
  • Williamson, Ronald M. (2000). Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, 1940–2000: An Illustrated History (2000 ed.). Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-56311-730-5. - Total pages: 200
  • U.S. Congress (2003). Congressional Record (2003 ed.). Government Printing Office. - Total pages: 15591

References

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