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One of the crew survived the plane crash, which took the lives of 71 people.
“I put all the bags between my legs and took the position recommended in case of emergency.” Erwin said that many passengers jumped out of their seats, began to scream and panic - this is what pushed them to death.
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Vesna Vulovich
The 22-year-old flight attendant holds the world altitude record for surviving a free fall without a parachute according to the Guinness Book of Records.
In 1972, the plane carrying Vesna Vulović exploded at an altitude of 10,160 meters. Vesna not only survived the destruction itself, but was also the only survivor of the 28 passengers and crew members.
The flight attendant should not have been on this flight at all, she was sent instead of another flight attendant simply due to an error by the airline. Vesna Vulović was working in the passenger compartment when the explosion occurred. She immediately lost consciousness and subsequently could not remember what she was doing or where exactly she was.
Vesna received many injuries: fractures of the base of the skull, three vertebrae, both legs and the pelvis. According to Vesna Vulovich herself, the first thing she asked for when she returned to consciousness was to smoke.
The treatment took 16 months, of which for 10 months the girl’s lower body was paralyzed. Vesna Vulović died in December 2016 at home in Belgrade.
Larisa Savitskaya
In the summer of 1981, young student Larisa Savitskaya was returning with her husband Vladimir from honeymoon. The couple flew on flight 811 on board an An-24RV from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk and, since the plane was half empty, they took comfortable seats in the rear of the plane instead of their seats.
During the flight, the An-24 aircraft on which the Savitsky spouses were flying collided with a Tu-16 military bomber at an altitude of 5220 meters. The crews of both planes were killed.
At the time of the disaster, Larisa Savitskaya was sleeping in her seat at the rear of the plane. She woke up with a strong blow and a sudden burn due to the extreme temperature change.
The fuselage broke right in front of Larisa’s chair, and she was thrown into the aisle. The girl reached the nearest chair and pressed herself into it. Larisa subsequently claimed that at that moment she remembered an episode from the film “Miracles Still Happen,” where the heroine squeezed into a chair during a plane crash and survived.
Part of the hull collapsed into a birch grove, the trees softened the blow. Waking up on the ground, the first thing Larisa saw was a chair with the body of her dead husband. She suffered a number of serious injuries, but was able to move.
Rescuers found her two days later. During this time, the student built herself a temporary shelter from the wreckage of the plane, keeping warm with seat covers and hiding from mosquitoes with a plastic bag. She was included in the Guinness Book of Records not only as a person who survived a fall from a maximum height, but also as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation - 75 rubles.
Baya Bakari
A 13-year-old French girl is the only survivor of a plane crash off the Comoros Islands in 2009. On June 30, 2009, Baya and her mother were flying to Airbus plane A310 to Comoros to visit grandparents.
The plane crashed into the Indian Ocean a few minutes before landing. Baya, sleeping during the disaster, believed that she had somehow fallen out of the porthole.
The newspapers wrote that she spent 12 to 14 hours in the shark-infested Mozambique Channel; Bahia herself claims in her autobiography that she was there for no more than 9 hours. Bakari was saved by a fisherman who took her to a Comorian hospital.
Besides her, there were 152 people on board - no one survived. Steven Spielberg himself wanted to film the story of her rescue, but Bakari refused.
Ruben van Assouw
A nine-year-old boy was the only survivor of an Afriqiyah Airways plane that crashed during landing. Ruben and his family were on a tourist trip to South Africa. On board the crashed plane there were passengers from 10 countries, most of whom (62 people) were citizens of the Netherlands.
His father, mother and brother died along with the other 103 passengers. Ruben immediately lost consciousness. He broke both legs, but they were restored after surgery. He now lives with his aunt and uncle in the Netherlands.
July 7 passenger plane air Air company Canada, flying from Toronto, mistakenly headed not onto the runway, but onto the taxiway, where four other airliners were at that moment. The controllers managed to stop the pilot in time, give the command to go around, after which the plane landed safely on the correct runway.
According to the head of Aero Consulting Experts and former pilot United Airlines Ross Eimer, the incident threatened to become the worst disaster in aviation history: “Imagine a huge Airbus crashing into four passenger airliners with full tanks.”
Let's remember the most famous and unusual cases of survival in plane crashes.
Boeing 777 crash in San Francisco
On July 6, 2013, a Boeing 777 crashed in San Francisco. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-28EER was flying OZ-214 on the Seoul-San Francisco route, but when landing at San Francisco airport, it crashed into an embankment in front of the runway and collapsed.
The NTSB commission blamed the cause of the crash on the erroneous actions of the crew: the plane was descending too quickly. The pilots noticed that the rate of descent and airspeed were not adequate when the aircraft was 60 meters from the ground, but did not take action for a missed approach. More precisely, 1.5 seconds before the collision the crew decided to go around, but there was no longer an opportunity for this. 
The impact tore off the plane's tail and left engine; the fuselage slid along the runway for about 600 meters and described an almost complete circle - it was turned 330 degrees. 
Of the 307 people on board (291 passengers and 16 crew members), 3 schoolgirls died (two at the scene of the disaster, one died in the hospital), 187 people were injured. “Only three people” - it’s hard to believe when looking at the photographs of the wrecked liner. 
This plane crash showed that serious damage to an aircraft does not mean large casualties. There is another interesting circumstance: contrary to the popular theory that the safest seats are in the back of the plane, all three crash victims were sitting there.
The cabin of flight 214 after the disaster: 
Miracle in Toronto 2005
It was a high-profile case when all the people survived a completely destroyed liner.
On August 2, 2005, an A340 aircraft crashed near Toronto International Airport. Air airlines France, which operated flight AFR358 on the Paris-Toronto route. There were 12 crew members and 297 passengers on board. 
The approach was carried out in difficult weather conditions with large thunderstorms over the airport in heavy rain and lightning flashes on the runway. The landing was carried out in manual mode with the autopilot and autothrottle disabled. 
Flying over the end runway significantly higher than established, the airliner landed further than a third of the beginning of the runway length. The pilots applied reverse, but were unable to stop within the runway, as a result of which the plane left the runway and rolled into a ravine. A fire broke out, which in a few minutes engulfed the airliner and destroyed it, but all 309 people on board were evacuated in time.
The evacuation of 309 people took less than 2 minutes, which many, including Canadian Transport Minister Jean Lapierre, later called a “miracle.” 
Survive falling from 5 km height
Young student Larisa Savitskaya and her husband Vladimir were returning from their honeymoon. On August 24, 1981, the An-24 plane on which the Savitsky spouses were flying collided with a Tu-16 military bomber at an altitude of 5220 m. After the collision, the crews of both aircraft died. As a result of the collision, the An-24 lost wings with fuel tanks and the top of the fuselage. The remaining part broke several times during the fall.
Passenger aircraft An-24: 
At the time of the disaster, Larisa Savitskaya was sleeping in her seat at the rear of the plane. I woke up from a strong blow and a sudden burn (the temperature instantly dropped from 25 °C to? 30 °C). After another break in the fuselage, which passed right in front of her seat, Larisa was thrown into the aisle, waking up, she reached the nearest seat, climbed in and pressed herself into it, without having buckled herself in. Larisa herself subsequently claimed that at that moment she remembered an episode from the film “Miracles Still Happen,” where the heroine squeezed into a chair during a plane crash and survived.
Bomber Tu-16K: 
Part of the plane's body landed on a birch grove, which softened the blow. According to subsequent studies, the entire fall of the plane fragment measuring 3 meters wide by 4 meters long, where Savitskaya ended up, took 8 minutes. Savitskaya was unconscious for several hours. Waking up on the ground, Larisa saw in front of her a chair with the body of her dead husband. She received a number of serious injuries, but could move independently. 
Two days later, she was discovered by rescuers, who were very surprised when, after two days of coming across only the bodies of the dead, they met a living person. She later learned that a grave had already been dug for both her and her husband. She was the only survivor of 38 people on board. The causes of the aircraft collision were unsatisfactory organization and management of flights in the area of the Zavitinsk airfield.
Larisa Savitskaya was twice included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records:
like a person who survived a fall from a maximum height,
as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage - 75 rubles. According to Gosstrakh standards in the USSR, 300 rubles were required. compensation for damages for the dead and 75 rubles. for survivors of plane crashes.
Larisa Savitskaya with her son Georgy. 
Survive falling from a height of 10 km without a parachute
The DC-9 crash over Hermsdorf was an aircraft accident that occurred on January 26, 1972. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 airliner of Yugoslav Airlines was operating flight JAT367 on the route Stockholm - Copenhagen - Zagreb - Belgrade, but 46 minutes after departure from Copenhagen the liner exploded in the air. According to some reports, a Croatian group of extremists left a bomb in the luggage compartment of the plane.
JAT DC-9-32, identical to the one blown up: 
The explosion of the airliner occurred over the German city of Hermsdorf, and the wreckage of the plane fell near the city of Ceska Kamenice (Czechoslovakia). Of the 28 people on board (23 passengers and 5 crew members), only one survived - 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovich, who fell without a parachute from a height of 10,160 meters. She is the holder of the world altitude record for surviving a free fall without a parachute, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Vesna was in a coma and received many injuries: fractures of the base of the skull, three vertebrae, both legs and the pelvis. The treatment took 16 months, of which for 10 months the girl’s lower body was paralyzed (from the waist to the legs). 
Miracle on the Hudson: A320 Emergency Landing
This aircraft accident occurred on January 15, 2009. The US Airways Airbus A320-214 was operating flight AWE 1549 on the route New York-Charlotte-Seattle, and there were 150 passengers and 5 crew members on board. 1.5 minutes after takeoff, the plane collided with a flock of birds and both engines failed. Commander Chesley Sullenberger, a former US Air Force pilot, decided that the only option to save the 155 people on board was to land on the Hudson River. The splashdown turned out to be successful. 
The crew landed the plane safely on the waters of the Hudson River in New York. All 155 people on board survived, 83 people were injured - 5 seriously (one flight attendant was the most injured) and 78 minor.
In the media, the incident is known as the “Miracle on the Hudson.” In total, 11 cases of controlled forced landings of passenger airliners on water are known; this case is the fourth without casualties.
By the way, yesterday, July 17, 2017, a Ural Airlines plane (flight U6-2932 Simferopol - Yekaterinburg) collided with a flock of birds, resulting in damage to the nose cone. It would seem like such a colossus and some birds, but... the plane ended up being repaired for 12 hours.
Here's what a bird strike looks like from the pilot's seat and from outside: 
Tu-124 landing on the Neva
This splashdown event occurred in Soviet aviation in the skies over Leningrad on August 21, 1963. As a result of a combination of circumstances, passenger plane The engines of the Tu-124 failed, and the plane began to glide from a height of half a kilometer above the city center. The crew had no choice but to try to splash down on the surface of the Neva. All 52 people on board survived.
Initially, the commission investigating the circumstances of the accident placed responsibility for the emergency on the crew. But later it was decided not to punish the pilots. 
Il-12 splashdown in Kazan
And 10 years earlier, on April 30, 1953, an Il-12 P aircraft from Aeroflot operated flight 35 on the route Moscow - Kazan - Novosibirsk. There were 18 passengers and 5 crew members on board. At 21:37, at the moment when the airliner, preparing to land in Kazan, was flying over the Volga, a very strong impact occurred. The crew members recalled that their vision darkened. Both engines lost power and flames appeared from the exhaust pipes.
Aeroflot IL-12: 
The ship's commander decided to make an emergency splashdown. The IL-12 splashed down in the area of the Kazan river port, after which the car began to rapidly fill up river water. the evacuation could not be carried out in time. The crew told passengers that the plane splashed down in shallow water, causing many to worry about taking personal belongings. In fact, the depth of the river in this place reached about 20 meters. As a result, people who had put on outerwear ended up in the water and began to drown. Of the 22 people, one passenger drowned. The investigation commission found that the cause of the emergency was a collision between the plane and a flock of ducks.
Miracle in the Andes
On October 13, 1972, an FH-227 plane crash occurred, which was called the “Miracle in the Andes.” A Fairchild FH-227D airliner of the Uruguayan Air Force performed chartered flight FAU 571 on the route Montevideo-Mendoza-Santiago, and on board were 5 crew members and 40 passengers (members of the Old Cristians rugby team, their relatives and sponsors). While approaching Santiago, the airliner was caught in a cyclone, crashed into a rock and crashed at the foot of the mountain.
Aircraft Fairchild FH-227D board T-571: 
The survivors had minimal food supplies and no heat sources necessary to survive in the harsh cold climate at an altitude of 3,600 meters. Desperate from hunger and a radio message that “all efforts to find the missing plane are being stopped,” people began to eat the frozen bodies of their dead comrades. Rescuers learned about the survivors only after 72 days... 
12 passengers died when they fell and collided with a rock, another 5 died later from wounds and cold. Then, of the remaining 28 survivors, 8 more died in an avalanche that covered their “home” from the fuselage of the plane, and later three more died from their wounds.
Boeing 737 accident over Kahului
This accident occurred on April 28, 1988. The Boeing 737-297 airliner of Aloha Airlines was performing domestic flight AQ 243 on the Hilo-Honolulu route, and on board there were 6 crew members and 89 passengers. But 23 minutes after takeoff, a significant part of the fuselage structure in the nose suddenly tore off the plane. According to the report, the causes of the accident were metal corrosion, poor epoxy bonding of fuselage parts, and rivet fatigue. 
94 out of 95 people survived. Senior flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing died - at the moment a part of the fuselage was torn off, she was in the middle of the plane, and she was thrown out by the air flow. Search teams could not find her body, as well as the torn off fragment of the fuselage, about 5.4 meters long. 
The article provides information about plane crashes of civil aircraft (AC) and aircraft of the Air Force (AF), in which only 1 (one) person survived out of all passengers and crew. Date of publication: 07/29/2011 (updated 11/03/2015).
The plane crash that resulted in the largest number of victims included in this list occurred on August 16, 1987 in the United States. Of the 155 people on board the DC-9-82 Only 4-year-old Cecilia Sichan survived, having lost her family during the emergency.
1936
The first recorded case of a sole survivor of a plane crash was on September 5, 1936. During a sightseeing flight over Pittsburgh International Airport, USA, a Pittsburgh Skyways aircraft crashed - aircraft type unknown. Ten people died, one survivor was a 17-year-old girl, a passenger on the plane. Linda McDonald(Linda McDonald).
1941
On October 30, 1941, near the American city of Moorhead, Minnesota, a Northwest Airlines mail plane fell from a height of 200-300 meters due to icing on the wing. Of the 15 people on board, only the pilot survived. Clarence Bates(Clarence Bates).
In the photo: Short S.25 Sunderland aircraft
1942
Under mysterious circumstances, on August 25, 1942, a Short S.25 Sunderland, a Royal Air Force flying boat, crashed in Scotland. Among the 14 dead was a member of the royal family, Duke of Kent George, which became the basis for the version of the terrorist attack. The only survivor is a 24-year-old lieutenant Andrew Jack(Andrew Jack), who was a passenger on the plane.
1943
John Howard(John Alfred Howard) - 26-year-old passenger of Panagra Flight 9, the only survivor of the plane crash on January 22, 1943. The Douglas DC-3 plane collided with a mountain in the province of Caraveli, Peru, at an altitude of about 4 thousand meters. Six people died due to insufficient training of dispatchers.
A US Air Force Boeing B-17C "Flying Fortress" crashed on June 14, 1943 near Mackay, Australia. The plane took off during the morning fog and after a short flight at low altitude fell to the ground. The causes of the disaster, during which 40 people died, have not been established. The only survivor is a 22-year-old passenger Foy Roberts(Foye Kenneth Roberts).
Czech pilot, 32 years old Eduard Prchal(Eduard Prchal) On July 4, 1943, he was the only survivor of a crash over Gibraltar when a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator II (tail number AL 523) crashed 16 seconds after takeoff. 16 people in the disaster, including the commander Polish troops and the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, his daughter, as well as the Chief of Staff, General Tadeusz Klimecki. During the investigation, Prchal was unable to clearly explain why he was wearing a life jacket on this flight, although he usually did not resort to such a precaution, and who was the second person who was seen on the wing of the crashed plane.
1946
On September 5, 1946, while approaching the destination airfield, a Douglas DC-3, operated by Trans-Luxury Airlines, collided with the ground. 20 people died. The probable cause of the crash in Elko County, Nevada, was pilot spatial awareness error in heavy fog. Only a two-year-old boy survived Peter Link(Peter Link), who was sitting in his mother's arms.
1947
Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-3 Flight 665 crashed into a hill near Galax, USA, on January 12, 1947. Of the 19 people on board the plane, only the 25-year-old survived. William Keys Jr.(William Ellis Keyes, Jr.). The cause of the crash has not been established; it is believed to have been pilot error.
On January 28, in China, near the city of Wuhan, a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando plane crashed 30 minutes after takeoff. 25 people died, only a 15-year-old survived Paul Wick(Paul Ashton Vick). The reasons for the plane crash are probably hidden and have not been officially established.
In the photo: Air France Douglas DC-3
On February 1, 1947, for unknown reasons, an Air France Douglas DC-3 fell and crashed. The disaster occurred in Portugal, near Lisbon. The only survivor is a 38-year-old Eugene Leonard(Eugene Leonard). 15 passengers and crew members were killed.
1948
March 10, 1948, Chicago, Delta Air Lines Flight 705 Douglas DC-4 crash. Soon after takeoff (heading for Miami), at an altitude of 60-100 meters, the plane began to sharply lift its nose until it was in an almost vertical position. Then, having gained a height of up to 250 meters, it went into a stall on the right wing and eventually crashed into the ground with its nose. The exact reasons for the loss of longitudinal control of the aircraft have not been established. 12 people died, a 33-year-old passenger survived Tripolina Meo(Tripolina Meo).
Ireland, near Shannon International Airport, April 15, 1948. At night, Lockheed L-049 Constellation Flight 1-10 PanAm airlines, descended before the end of the runway, touched the chassis with a stone fence and collapsed. As a result of the disaster, 30 people died, the only survivor was Mark Worst(Mark Worst).
Pictured: Douglas DC-4 in Congo
On May 12, 1948, a Douglas DC-4 of a Belgian state company in the Democratic Republic of Congo at an altitude of about 220 meters fell into the center of a thunderstorm front, sharply lost altitude and crashed into the forest, killing 31 people. Survivor - passenger named Mutafish(Moutafis).
Huang Yu(in Cantonese - Wong Yu) was the only 24-year-old survivor of the Cathay Pacific flight that crashed on July 17, 1948 at Macau Point. 25 people died.
1949
On November 20, 1949, due to difficult weather conditions in Norway, a Dutch Douglas DC-3 aircraft (Aero Holland company) fell into a forest and crashed. There were 10 adults and 26 children on board, of whom only the 12-year-old survived. Isaac Allal(Isaac Allal).
1950
10 year old Olga Rada(Olga Rada) is the only survivor of a plane crash on May 24, 1950, which occurred near the city of Pasto in Colombia with a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, LANSA airlines. The plane, for an unknown reason, crashed in the air near the Galeras volcano, killing 25 people.
Japan, 130 kilometers from Tokyo, July 27, 1950. 20 minutes after takeoff, a US Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed into Pacific Ocean. The causes of the disaster have not been established; the debris sank to a depth of over 1,500 meters. Of the 26 people, only the passenger, 23-year-old sergeant, survived Haru Sazaki(Haru Sazaki).
Pictured: Douglas C-47 Skytrain
On August 30, 1950, another RAF Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed near the Indonesian island of Jemaja. For an unknown reason, the Douglas fell into the South China Sea while en route from Singapore to Hong Kong, killing nine people. The only survivor is Major David Lowther(David Lowther).
1954
The village of Aldbrey, Hertfordshire, UK. Four minutes after takeoff on January 6, 1954, during a snowstorm, a Vickers Valetta T.3 of the Royal Air Force lost altitude and crashed into trees. 16 people died, sergeant survived PeeDee Cliff(P.D. Cliff). The causes of the disaster have not been definitively established.
In the photo: Vickers Valetta T.3 aircraft
Paul Olsen(Paul Olsen) received his second chance at life on March 28, 1954, when he was the only survivor of a plane crash off Bear Island, Spitsbergen. Eight people were killed when a Royal Norwegian Air Force mail plane crashed.
In the photo: passengers of the Li-2 aircraft of the Far Eastern branch of Aeroflot
On August 26, near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, an Aeroflot Li-2 aircraft (Far Eastern Territorial Administration of the Civil Air Fleet, Khabarovsk Air Group) crashed into a hill while landing in low cloudy conditions. As a result of the disaster, 26 people died, survived unknown lieutenant colonel of the Soviet army. A man about 40 years old was taken to hospital in serious condition.
1956
Concetta Finamore(Concetta Finamore) is the only survivor of Linee Aeree Italiane flight LAI Flight 451, which crashed on November 24, 1956. 34 people died.
Pictured: crash site presidential plane Philippines
1957
On March 17, 1957, the presidential plane Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed in the Philippines, Cebu Island. As a result of insufficient climb due to electrical malfunction, the plane crashed into a mountain 40 minutes into the flight. 25 people were killed, including the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay. The only survivor was a 31-year-old man in the back of the plane. Nestor Mata(Nestor Mata).
In the photo: Eagle Aviation Limited aircraft
On 1 May 1957, an Eagle Aviation Limited Vickers VC.1 Viking crashed near Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, killing 34 people, mostly military personnel and their families. After the fall, four people were found alive and sent to hospital, but only one passenger survived. whose name is not mentioned.
1959
Due to crew error, on October 30, 1959, Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, crashed into the 950-meter Bucks Elbow Mountain, White Hall, Virginia, 100 meters below its peak. Survivor Phil Bradley(Phil Bradley) during the impact was thrown out of the fuselage along with the seat on which he was waiting for rescuers, wearing a seat belt. The remaining 26 people on board died.
Pictured: Allegheny Airlines Martin 2-0-2
December 1, 1959, USA, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. While Martin 2-0-2, Allegheny Airlines Flight 371 was landing, the crew went off course and the plane crashed into a mountain. 25 people died, survived - Louis Matarazzo(Louis Matarazzo).
1967
Lieutenant Joseph Guinet(Joseph "Leo" Guenet), 29, crew member of a US Air Force Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation, sole survivor of the April 25, 1967 crash. 8 minutes after the Lockheed took off, the crew reported a fire in the third engine and requested an emergency landing on the island of Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the plane did not reach the runway, but fell into the water a few kilometers from the island. 15 people died.
1968
Unidentified conscript soldier was the only survivor of the Il-18 crash in the Chunsky region Irkutsk region February 29, 1968. For an unknown reason, Aeroflot flight 15 fell from an altitude of about 8,000 meters. At an altitude of 1000 m, the IL-18 collapsed due to extreme loads. As a result of the disaster, 83 people died.
1970
While on runway takeoff in Cusco, Peru, on August 9, 1970, LANSA Flight 502's Lockheed L-188 Electra stalled and caught fire. The Lockheed did take off, and the pilots requested an emergency landing. During the turn, the plane tilted, lost altitude, fell to the ground and caught fire. As a result of improper operation of the aircraft and erroneous actions of the crew, 101 people died (2 on the ground). The only survivor of this plane crash is a 26-year-old pilot. Juan Loo(Juan Loo).
1971
June 6, 1971 pilot, lieutenant Christopher Schiess(Christopher E. Schiess) was the only survivor of the collision between a US Navy aircraft and civilian Hughes Airwest Flight 706. 50 people died.
In the photo: Juliana Koepke at the scene of the plane crash
Peru, Arequipa, December 24, 1971, the tragedy of LANSA Flight 508, which became the basis for the film “Miracles Still Happen.” The Lockheed L-188 Electra encountered severe turbulence minutes after takeoff. Twenty minutes into the flight, Lockheed was struck by lightning. The plane began to disintegrate in the air at an altitude of 3.2 kilometers and fell deep into the tropical forest. Having suffered a fractured collarbone, the only surviving passenger Juliana Koepke(Juliane Koepcke) came out to people on her own after 9 days.
1972
Vesna Vulovich(Vesna Vulović), a 22-year-old flight attendant, was the sole survivor of the DC-9-30 plane crash (JAT Flight 367) on January 26, 1972, near the village of Srbska Kamenice in Czechoslovakia. After the disaster, Vulovich was in a coma for 27 days, and then remained in the hospital for another 16 months. She continued to work for the airline, but in ground work (her skull, legs and three vertebrae were damaged).
Vesna Vulović holds a Guinness World Record for surviving a free fall without a parachute from a record height of 10,160 meters (33,316 feet).
1973
July 22, 1973, near the city of Papeete in Tahiti fell into the Pacific ocean Boeing Pan Am Flight 816 707-321B. During takeoff, the plane rose to a height of 100 meters, and then fell to the left and crashed into the water. 78 people died - all except Neil Campbell(Neil James Campbell). The Boeing 707 sank to a depth of about 700 meters, the flight recorders were not found, and the causes of the disaster have not been established.
On the picture: bow crashed Tu-134A
1979
March 22, USSR, Liepaja. Due to an error by the crew and air traffic control, which allowed the aircraft to become unbalanced, an Aeroflot Tu-134A cargo flight crashed. Four people died, the surviving crew member was a flight mechanic Yuri Dmitrievich Stepanov, who, unlike his comrades, was fastened during takeoff.
On May 30, 1979, DHC-6 (De Havilland Canada) Twin Otter Flight 46 of Downeast Airlines crashed. For an unknown reason, while landing at the airport in Rockland, Maine, USA, the plane hit trees and crashed. 17 people died; only a 16-year-old passenger survived from those on board the DHS. John McCafferty(John McCafferty).
1981
Savitskaya Larisa Vladimirovna, the only survivor of the An-24 plane crash (Aeroflot flight 811), which occurred on August 24, 1981 near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. A young 20-year-old girl was in the tail and survived after a mid-air collision: an AN-24 collided with a Tu-16 bomber at an altitude of 5220 m. 37 people died.
Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records as having survived a fall from a height of more than 5,000 meters and received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage (75 rubles in 1981–1982 money).
September 2, 1981, Colombia, Paipa city. Due to the overload, it was unable to gain the required altitude and, when making a left turn, crashed into a hill, an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft belonging to Taxi Aereo el Venado. 21 people died, only a 26-year-old passenger survived Remberto Aparicio(Remberto Aparicio).
1983
30 year old Melissa Kelly(Melissa Kelly) is the sole survivor of the April 30, 1983 crash of a US Navy Convair CV-340 near Jacksonville, Florida. The crew decided to return to the departure airport when one of the plane's engines caught fire shortly after takeoff, but the Convair CV-340 fell into the water 125 meters before the start of the runway. 14 people died.
In the photo: Aeroflot Tu-154
On December 23, 1984, in the crash of a Tu-154 flying from Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, 110 people died. Sole survivor name in the crash of Aeroflot flight 3519, a 27-year-old man, not named.
1985
Shortly after the Lockheed L-188A Electra took off from Reno Airfield in Nevada, the aircraft began to vibrate violently due to an opening on the wing. The crew of Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 made a mistake: deciding that the detonation was caused by a malfunction of the turbines, the pilots reduced engine thrust, the plane lost speed and crashed in the campsite. The only surviving passenger, a 17-year-old George Lamson(George Lamson), along with the seat, was thrown out of the fuselage seconds before the explosion, in which 70 people died.
As we see, airplanes are becoming larger over the years, and accordingly the number of passengers is increasing...
1987
Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan, January 3, 1987. The Boeing 707 airliner, Varig flight 797, crashed while approaching emergency landing after engine failure. 50 people died, only one passenger, a professor, survived Neuba Yessokh(Neuba Yessoh).
On August 16, 1987, during takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Michigan, the crew did not extend the flaps and slats of Northwest Airlines Flight 255. As a result, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 airliner lost speed and crashed off the runway. The malfunction of the flight readiness warning system was caused by the deliberate disconnection of an electrical fuse by an unknown person. This disaster killed 156 people (two on the ground), the only survivor was a four-year-old girl named Cecilia Sichan(Cecelia Cichan).
In the photo: Cecilia Sichan a few years after the disaster
On December 8, 1987, football players and other members of the Alliance sports club, as well as fans of the team returning to Lima, were killed. During a re-landing (due to landing gear malfunction) at George Chavez International Airport, a Peruvian Navy Fokker F27-400M aircraft dropped altitude too early, hit the ocean surface with its right wing, flipped over and was destroyed. The plane crash in Peru killed 42 people. The only survivor is Lieutenant Edilberto Villar(Edilberto Villar), who was listed as a crew member, but strangely his role in the crew was not established.
1988
Unknown man was the only survivor of a plane crash on December 11, 1988, which occurred near Leninakan with an Il-76M aircraft of the USSR Air Force. This lucky guy was in the cockpit of a KamAZ truck loaded into a plane when it crashed into a mountain during landing. 77 people died.
1990
Turkmen USSR, Ashgabat region, near Bakhardok, November 19, 1990. Due to a manufacturing defect, the main gearbox of the main rotor of the Mi-8T, board USSR-22389, of the Aeroflot company, was destroyed. The helicopter fell from a height of 1200 m, collided with the ground and exploded. Aircraft commander A. Burmistrov survived due to the fact that he was thrown through the cockpit glazing during the explosion; the remaining 15 people on board died.
In the photo: Indonesian plane crash survivor Bambang Sumadi
1991
A Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Indonesian Air Force A-1324, was returning from Armed Forces Day celebrations on October 5, 1991. There were pilots on board taking part in official events. For an unknown (or hidden) reason, the plane lost control and crashed into The educational center Ministry of Labor in the area of Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, Jakarta. As a result of the Lockheed crash, 135 people died (2 on the ground), survived - Bambang Sumadi(Bambang Sumadi).
1992
Libyan leader Yasser Arafat- the only survivor of a plane crash that occurred on April 7, 1992. The circumstances of the crash are little known: the plane was flying from Khartoum to Tripoli, got into a sandstorm and crashed in the desert. At least four people died.
In the photo: Annette Herfkens, a passenger on Vietnamese flight 474
On November 14, 1992, while landing in tropical storm conditions, he deviated from course to international airport Cam Ranh and crashed into the top mountain range Yak-40 aircraft of Vietnam Airlines (flight 474). All crew members and passengers (30 people) were killed, except for the 31-year-old Annette Herfkens(Annette Herfkens). It took rescuers 8 days to reach the wreckage of the plane.
In the photo: Erica Delgado with relatives
1995
Nine year old Erica Delgado Erika Delgado, a young passenger on Columbia International Airlines Flight 256, was the sole survivor of the crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 near Bolivar on January 11, 1995. For an unknown reason, the plane lost control and fell from a height of 3000 meters. 52 people died.
On September 24, 1995, 42 people died in the MIAT Mongolian Airlines plane crash, the only person who survived was a 27-year-old Ulzibayar Sanjaa(English Ulziibayar Sanjaa).
1997
Navigator Sergey Petrov, 37 years old, survived a plane crash near Sharjah airport, UAE. On that day, December 15, 1997, a Tu-154 aircraft, flight 3183 of Tajik Airlines, during landing due to a pilot error, fell below the required altitude, lost speed and crashed in a desert area. As a result of the crash of the liner, 85 people died.
In the photo: the wreckage of a crashed Boeing 737 in the desert
2003
Youssef Jillali(eng. Youcef Djillali), 28 years old, Algerian citizen, military man. On March 6, 2003, I flew from Tamanrasset to Ghardaia (Algeria). Due to an engine failure during takeoff, the Algerian Airlines Boeing 737-200 (Air Algérie Flight 6289) crashed in the Sahara Desert. There were 97 passengers and 6 crew members on board, all but one died.
Mohamed El Fateh Othman(eng. Mohammed el-Fateh Osman), 3 years old, citizen of Sudan. On July 8, 2003, I flew with my mother from Port Sudan to Khartoum. A Sudanese Airlines Boeing 737-200 (tail number ST-AFK) (flight 139) crashed in the Red Sea before reaching Khartoum airport. There were 117 passengers and crew on board, all but one were killed. The plane caught fire in the air. Eyewitnesses say the falling plane looked like a giant fireball. Rescuers found a little boy at the crash site.
In the photo: Lieutenant Farkas and his wife after the disaster
2006
Premature altitude loss and spatial orientation error led to the January 19, 2006 plane crash in Pristina, Serbia, involving Flight 5605 Air Force Slovakia. As a result of the crash of the An-24 plane, 42 people died. The only survivor is Lieutenant Martin Farkas(Martin Farkaš), a former passenger on the plane.
On August 27, 2006, while taking off from Lexington, Kentucky, Delta Connection pilots mistook the runway number and began taking off on a shorter runway. As a result, the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (flight 5191) did not have enough takeoff length, it rolled off the runway, rammed an iron fence, crashed into trees, collapsed and caught fire. The disaster claimed the lives of 49 people. The only survivor is a 44-year-old co-pilot. James Polehinke(James Polehinke).
In the photo: former pilot James Polehinke and his wife
2007
Iraq, Balad city, January 9, 2007. Abdulkadir Akyz(Abdülkadir Akyüz) remained the only surviving passenger of the An-26 (board ER-26068) of the Moldovan airline AerianTur-M. The plane crashed while landing at the airport, killing 34 people. There are several versions of the causes of the disaster, including bad weather conditions and a terrorist attack (there is reason to believe that the Moldovan An-26 was shot down by a missile).
In the photo: rescuers evacuate Francesca Lewis, which took about 4 hours, to a place accessible by helicopter
12 year old Francesca Lewis(Francesca Lewis) is the only survivor of the Cessna 172 plane crash that crashed into the side of the Baru volcano in Panama on December 23, 2007. The tragedy killed everyone on board, including multimillionaire Michael Caine and his 13-year-old daughter Talia. Francesca was found two days after the Cessna crashed in a remote mountainous area.
2008
In conditions of poor visibility on October 8, 2008 in the area of the airport. Tenzing and Hillary in Lukla, Nepal, the pilot went off course and Yeti Airlines' De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (Flight 103) crashed into a mountain. As a result of the disaster, the lives of 18 people were lost. The only survivor is the crew commander Surendra Kunwar(English: Surendra Kunwar).
year 2009
Canada, Newfoundland, March 12. A Sikorsky S-92 helicopter servicing the Hybernia oil field crashed into the ocean while flying to an oil platform. Only the 28-year-old survived Robert Decker(Robert Decker), 17 people died.
Pictured: Baya Bakari on a hospital bed in July 2009
Baya Bakari(English: Bahia Bakari), 14 years old, French citizen. On June 30, 2009, I flew with my mother from Marseille to the Comoros Islands. An Airbus A-310-300 Yemen Airlines flight IY 626 crashed in Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands. There were 153 passengers on board, all but a teenage girl died. Baya did not suffer any physical injuries in the disaster, suffering only from hypothermia after being in the water for 14 hours. In 2010, she published her autobiography, Survivor.
In the photo: 9-year-old Ruben van Assouw in the hospital after surgery
2010
Ruben van Assouw(Ruben van Assouw), 9 years old, Dutch citizen. On May 12, 2010, I flew with my parents from Johannesburg to Tripoli. The Airbus A330-200 of the Libyan company Afriqiyah Airways (flight 771) crashed while landing at Tripoli Airport due to pilot error. There were 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board, all but one died. The child was found conscious among the rubble. The boy's legs were broken, but his vital signs were normal.
On August 25, 2010, while approaching the Bandundu airfield in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Filair flight 9Q-CCN, a Let L-420UVP aircraft, crashed into a house. Due to lack of fuel or technical malfunction, 20 people died. Unfortunately, no data on sole survivor in this disaster.
2011
April 4 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo, Georgian pilot lost control of Bombardier CRJ 100 in difficult weather conditions Georgian Airways, transporting cargo and passengers commissioned by the UN. As a result of the impact with the DGG, the plane split into two parts and caught fire. 32 people died. The only survivor is Francis Muamba(Francis Mwamba).
Alexander Sizov, 42 years old, aviation and radio maintenance engineer for the Yak-42 aircraft (flight AKY-9633), which crashed on September 7 on the Yaroslavl - Minsk route. The plane crashed during takeoff from Tunoshna airport due to a crew error. The plane skidded off the runway, did not have time to gain altitude, collided with a radio beacon, crashed into the ground and exploded. 44 people died, including players of the Lokomotiv hockey club.
In the photo: Yak-42 five years before the disaster
year 2014
On February 11, 2014, a Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules military transport aircraft crashed while flying from Tamanrasset to Constantine, Algeria's Umm el-Bawaki province. Before reaching its destination, the plane crashed in a mountainous area, killing 77 people. 21-year-old escaped Nimer Jellul(eng. Nimer Djelloul).
2015
An An-2 aircraft of the Kazakhmys company, flying on January 20 from Balkhash to Shatyrkol, Shu district of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan, crashed on approach to its destination. Six people died, survived Asem Shayakhmetova.
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Aircraft passenger safety
In 2008, specialists from the University of Greenwich (London) conducted a study, the data for which was taken from an analysis of the circumstances of the death of 105 people in plane crashes. Almost 2 thousand people who survived plane crashes were also interviewed.
The results showed that aisle seats, no more than five rows from an emergency exit, are the safest.
According to a number of experts, flight attendant seats are safer than passenger seats, since they are located backwards. It was even proposed to turn the passenger seats around, but the innovation was not implemented due to the reluctance of passengers to fly backwards. In addition, when the aircraft is flying in cruising mode with a positive angle of attack, passengers sitting facing the flight will “slide” out of their seats, since in this position of the aircraft the seat cushion is at a negative angle to the horizon.
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In some cases, passengers did not even receive any serious injuries. Some were simply late for tragic flight, the flight was canceled for any reason, while others remained relatively safe and sound after the crash. There were also cases when those who were not present on the fatal board, but died under its rubble, became victims of the disaster.
Four-year-old American girl who survived the disaster
In August 1989, an American airliner flying the route Saginaw - Detroit - Phoenix - Santa Ana took off from the airport in Detroit. A few minutes after the plane left the ground, it began to roll sideways, crashed into several lamp posts and burst into flames. The airliner crashed onto the road, drove along it, hit a railway embankment and crashed into an overpass. The plane was completely destroyed. One hundred and fifty passengers and crew members died in this disaster. Two people who were in the cars that were crashed by the plane died on the ground.
Four-year-old American Cecilia Sechan suffered significant injuries but survived the disaster. The child who survived the plane crash was flying with his parents and older brother. The girl was noticed by firefighter John Tied, who was working at the crash site. Cecilia suffered a fractured skull, third-degree burns, a broken collarbone and a broken leg. The girl underwent several operations, but was able to fully recover. Photos of the girl who survived the plane crash then spread all over America.
Cecilia Sechan was raised by her uncle and aunt. She has never given interviews, but broke her silence in 2013 by appearing in the documentary Sole Survivor. The girl says that she is not afraid to fly on airplanes. She is guided by the principle: if it happened once, it will not happen again. In addition, the girl got a tattoo of an airplane on her arm, which reminds her of that both tragic and happy day.
Larisa Savitskaya, survivor of the crash over Zavitinsk
In 1981, Soviet student Larisa Savitskaya was returning from a honeymoon with her husband on a Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk flight operated by an An-24 aircraft. The newlyweds had tickets for the middle part of the plane, but since there were many empty seats in the cabin, they decided to take seats in the back.
During the flight, the plane collided with a Tu-16K bomber. There were several reasons for this. These include errors by airport ground staff and dispatchers, and generally unsatisfactory organization of flights in the Zavitinsk area, and non-compliance with safety regulations, and unclear interaction between civilian and military aircraft. Everyone on board both planes died, except for the only girl who survived the crash.
At the time of the plane collision, Larisa was sleeping in her chair. The girl woke up from a burn caused by depressurization of the cabin, cold air (the temperature dropped to -30 degrees) and a strong blow. After the fuselage broke, the girl was thrown into the aisle, she lost consciousness, but a few moments later she woke up, reached the nearest seat and squeezed into it without wearing a seat belt. Larisa Savitskaya, who survived the plane crash, later claimed that at that moment she remembered the film “Miracles Still Happen,” the heroine of which miraculously escaped the crash by squeezing into a chair. But the girl did not think about salvation then, she just wanted “to die without pain.”
Part of the plane fell on a birch grove, which significantly softened the blow. Larisa fell on a piece of debris 3 x 4 meters. It was subsequently determined that the fall took eight minutes. The girl fell to the ground unconscious.
When she woke up, she saw in front of her a chair with the body of her dead husband. Larisa was injured, but was still able to move independently. The girl had to spend two days in the forest, alone, among corpses and the wreckage of the plane. The girl was wearing paint that was flying off the fuselage, and her hair was very tangled in the wind. She built a temporary shelter from the rubble, kept warm with seat covers, and protected herself from mosquitoes with plastic bags.
It was raining all this time, but search work was still carried out. Larisa waved at a passing helicopter, but rescuers, not expecting to find survivors, mistook her for a geologist from a camp nearby. Larisa Savitskaya, as well as the bodies of her husband and two other passengers, were the last to be found. She was the only survivor.
Doctors determined that the girl had a concussion, broken ribs, broken arms, spinal injuries, and in addition, she had lost almost all her teeth. Despite her injuries, she did not receive disability. Later Larisa was paralyzed, but she was able to recover. Larisa became the person who received the minimum amount of compensation, that is, only 75 rubles.
Serbian flight attendant who survived a plane crash in 1972.
Flight attendants who survive a plane crash are not uncommon. However, the only survivors are already a one in a million chance. Such a miracle happened to a flight attendant on a flight from Copenhagen to Zagreb. The plane exploded in mid-air over the village of Serbska in Czechoslovakia. The investigation named the cause of the crash as a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists.
When the explosive detonated, the plane exploded into several pieces and began to fall. In the middle compartment at that time there was flight attendant Vesna Vulović, who was replacing her colleague Vesna Nikolic. The luck of the girl who survived the plane crash was that she had a soft fall and that she was first discovered by a peasant who worked in a field hospital during the war and knew how to provide first aid.
The girl, who was soon taken to the hospital, spent 27 days in a coma, then 16 months in a hospital bed. She had amnesia, the girl for some time forgot every day that passed. But she still survived. Doctors attributed her miraculous salvation to low blood pressure. When a person finds himself at a high altitude, his heart breaks from high pressure. But Vesna, who always had very low blood pressure, was able to escape death in the air. It also helped that the girl lost consciousness. But no one knows how the flight attendant managed to survive hitting the ground.
After the tragedy, the flight attendant who survived the plane crash quit and never flew on planes again. She admitted to reporters that even before that disaster she was on the verge of life and death eight times. This was when Vesna was on vacation in Montenegro and met a shark that should not have been in those waters at all, when she was arguing with her mentally ill neighbor about politics (the man took a knife and tried to attack), when she had a severe case of ectopic pregnancy and etc.
Nine-year-old girl who survived the crash over Cartagena
In January 1995, an American plane was flying from Bogota to Cartagena with 5 crew members and 47 passengers on board. During landing, the altimeter failed and the plane crashed in a swampy area. Nine-year-old Erica Delgado was flying with her parents and younger brother. A girl who survived the plane crash said that her mother pushed her out of the falling plane.
The plane exploded and caught fire as it fell. Erica fell into the seaweed, which softened her fall. Immediately after the tragedy, looting began. Residents of a nearby village tore the gold necklace off the living girl, ignoring her pleas for help. Some time later, the girl who survived the plane crash was found by a farmer.
One and a half dozen survivors and 72 days of struggle with nature
In the fall of 1972, a plane crashed while flying from Montevideo to Santiago. The survivors had virtually no chance of salvation, but they managed to cheat death. Several passengers were left in the snowy mountains, not knowing where they were or whether anyone was looking for them. It was cold in the mountains, people tried to somehow warm up, hiding in the remains of the fuselage. By morning, several passengers still had not woken up. The passengers managed to find some provisions: crackers, liquor, a few chocolates, sardines. Everyone understood that this would not be enough. The survivors later found a radio and heard that the rescue operation had been called off. Then they decided to eat the dead.
The next day, an avalanche occurred and some people were trapped under snow debris. They managed to get out from under the rubble three days later. People waited 72 days for salvation. Each new day was similar to the previous one. Soon the three survivors decided to go in search of some settlement. It was difficult for them to breathe and move in the snow; soon one of the group decided to return back to the plane.
When they reached the top of the mountain, they saw only snow-capped mountains around. They thought there was no hope, but decided that it was better to die on the road than near the plane. Moreover, the mother and sister of one of the guys had died earlier, and he knew that if he returned, he would have to eat their meat.
On the ninth day of the journey, the young people found a river, on the other side they saw a shepherd. He brought paper and a pen and threw it with a stone to the other side. The survivors wrote down everything that happened to them. The shepherd threw cheese and bread to the young guys, and he himself went to the nearest settlement, which was 10 hours away. He returned back with the military.
The rescue operation took two days. First, the military rescued two young people who went in search of the settlement. The survivors gave their first press conference in the mountains. The young people had to tell everything that happened. But the press turned out to be merciless, the newspapers were full of headlines “They ate the dead”, “Traces of cannibalism discovered” and so on. But both the rescuers and the survivors themselves understood that they had no other opportunity to survive.
Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Juliana Diler Kepke
The plane crash happened at night. When the girl woke up, the hands of her watch were moving; the time was about nine in the morning. The surviving girl later said that her eyes and head hurt very much. She was sitting in the same chair. Juliana lost consciousness several times. The girl saw rescue helicopters, but could not give any signal.
Seventeen-year-old Juliana broke her collarbone, she had a deep wound on her leg, scratches, her right eye was swollen shut from the blow, and her whole body was covered in bruises. The girl found herself in a deep forest. Her father was a zoologist; as a child, he taught Juliana the rules of survival, she was able to get food, and soon found a stream. Nine days later, Juliana Diller Kepke herself came out to the fishermen.
Based on the story of Juliana’s miraculous rescue, the feature film “Miracles Still Happen” was made, which later helped Larisa Savitskaya survive.
Survivor of a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean
People who survived a plane crash were usually able to fully recover from the tragedy. In 2009, a flight from Paris to the Comoros crashed into the Indian Ocean. Thirteen-year-old Bahia Bakari flew with her mother to visit her grandparents in the Comoros Islands. The girl does not know how exactly she managed to survive, since she was sleeping at the time of the disaster. The girl received fractures and multiple bruises from the fall. But she needed to hold out even before the rescuers arrived. She climbed onto one of the fragments, which was kept afloat. Bakari was found only fourteen hours after the disaster. The girl was taken to Paris on a special flight.
"Lucky Four" in the largest disaster in terms of number of victims
In Japan in 1985, the largest disaster involving a single aircraft occurred in terms of the number of victims. The Boeing took off from Tokyo to Osaka. There were more than five hundred passengers and crew members on board. After takeoff, the tail stabilizer came off, depressurization occurred, pressure dropped, and some of the airliner systems failed.
The plane was doomed; it became uncontrollable. The pilots managed to keep the plane in the air for more than half an hour. As a result, he crashed one hundred kilometers from the capital of Japan. The plane crashed in the mountains, rescuers were able to find the wreckage only the next morning; they, of course, did not at all hope to find survivors.
But a rescue team discovered a whole group of survivors. They were flight attendant and passenger Hiroko Yoshizaki and her eight-year-old daughter, twelve-year-old Keiko Kawakami. The last girl was found on a tree. All four survivors were in the rear of the plane, exactly where the plane's skin ruptured. But more passengers could have survived the disaster. Keiko Kawakami later claimed that she heard the voices of passengers, including her father. Many passengers died on the ground from their wounds and injuries. The victims of the tragedy were 520 people.
Girl who survived the L-410 plane crash
The girl who survived the plane crash in Khabarovsk is three-year-old Jasmina Leontyeva. The girl was flying with her teacher along the route Khabarovsk - Nelkan; the plane was supposed to land, but it started to land, tilted and fell not far from the runway. Two crew members and four passengers on board were killed. The girl, who was found under the wreckage of the plane, was immediately taken to the hospital, and then transported by a special plane to Khabarovsk. There, the parents of the girl who survived the plane crash were already waiting for Jasmine at the hospital.
Flight technician who survived the Yak-42 crash
A few years ago, a Yak-42 plane crashed with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board. The flight engineer managed to survive this terrible tragedy. Alexander Sizov, a survivor of the plane crash (Lokomotiv), testified in court. The case of Vadim Timofeev, who was responsible for security at the air transport at the Yak Service company.
Air transport is one of the safest, but tragedies occur there from time to time. Fortunately, even in a plane crash there is a chance of survival, albeit one in a million. Evidence of this - Soviet flight attendant, a survivor of a plane crash, the only survivor of a crash over the Indian Ocean, the tragedy over Cartagena, the “lucky four” in Japan and other people.
In 2007, Francesca Lewis escaped death in the Panamanian mountains by being overwhelmed by luggage, which saved her from freezing to death. A 12-year-old girl nearly lost her life after the single-engine Cessna she was aboard crashed into a volcano, killing three people. Not only did she miraculously survive the collision, but she spent two and a half days afterwards pinned in her seat, without food or water, and wearing only shorts and a T-shirt. Three others on board the plane - Francesca's best friend, 13-year-old Talia Klein, Talia's father, 37-year-old millionaire Michael Klein, and 23-year-old pilot Edwin Lasso - died instantly.
The girls studied together at school located in Santa Barbara, California, and were on vacation in Panama.
2. Baya Bakari: the only survivor of the Yemenia Airways plane crash
14-year-old French schoolgirl Baya Bakari became the only survivor of the crash of Yemenia Flight 626. The plane crashed in the Indian Ocean near north coast Grande Comore Islands (Comoros) June 30, 2009. The remaining 152 people on board were killed. Bakari, who could barely swim and had no life jacket, spent more than 13 hours in rough seas, mostly in the dark, clinging to the wreckage of the plane. The girl was rescued by the private ship Sima Com 2. As soon as Bakari was spotted, a member of the rescue team threw her a life preserver, but the sea was too rough and the girl was too tired to catch it. One of the sailors, Maturafi Seleman Libonah, jumped into the water and handed her a flotation device, after which they were both brought safely aboard the ship. Bakary's mother, who flew with her from Paris for summer holiday in the Comoros, died in a disaster.
3. Mohammed el-Fateh Osman: 3-year-old boy who was the only survivor of 116 passengers
In 2003, 3-year-old Mohammed el-Fateh Osman was the only survivor after a Sudan Airways plane crashed into a hillside at Port Sudan airport during takeoff. As a result of the disaster, the boy lost his right leg and received severe burns. 105 passengers and all 11 crew members were killed. A nomad found a boy lying on a fallen tree.
4. Cecelia Sichen: the only survivor of one of the most terrible plane crashes in US history
In 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed minutes after takeoff from Detroit Airport, killing 154 people. Four-year-old Cecelia Sichen was the only survivor. Her mother Paula, father Michael and 6-year-old brother David were among those killed. The family was returning from vacation.
For several days after the accident, the girl's identity remained a mystery until her maternal grandmother read in a news report that the girl's fingernails were covered in purple polish and her front tooth was chipped. Pauline Siamaichela recalled with tears in her eyes how the girl's nails were painted lavender before returning home.
5. Ruben van Assouw: the only Dutch boy to survive the plane crash
9-year-old Ruben van Assouw from Holland was found strapped into his seat amid debris scattered across the Libyan desert. The boy was unconscious, but breathing, his legs were broken.
On May 12, 2010, an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus crashed on approach to Tripoli, killing 103 passengers and crew. Ruben was returning home with his parents and brother after a safari. The boy learned that he was the only one alive only a few days later.
Libyan authorities circulated a photo of the traumatized child, and a correspondent from a Dutch tabloid managed to get into Ruben's room and talk to him before he learned that his entire family had died. Now being raised by his aunt and uncle, Ruben says he hopes to return to Libya because “he wants to know what happened.”
6. Erica Delgado: The Girl Who Survived After Her Mom Pushed Her Out of a Plane
In 1995, a 10-year-old girl with a broken arm became the only survivor of a plane crash in northern Colombia that killed 47 passengers and five crew members. Authorities said the DC-9 Intercontinental exploded in mid-air, but witnesses in the town of Maria la Baja, 500 miles northwest of Bogota, said the plane, without lights, crashed into an embankment and then capsized in lagoon.
Erika Delgado, who was flying with her parents and younger brother from Bogota to the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena, was rushed to hospital in shock and with a broken arm.
One of the farmers said that he heard cries for help and found the girl on a mound of seaweed, which softened her fall. The girl told the farmers that her mother pushed her out of the plane when it caught fire and began to fall apart.
7. Paul Ashton Vick: Youngest Survivor
Paul Ashton Vick is the youngest of the only survivors. He survived a China National Aviation Corporation plane crash when he was just 16 months old in January 1947. His father, Robert Wick, was a Baptist pastor from Connecticut who worked in China as a missionary after the end of World War II. Vic, his wife and two sons (2-year-old Theodore and 16-month-old Paul) were traveling from Shanghai to Chongqing. During the flight, one of the engines caught fire, and the fire quickly penetrated the cabin. When it became obvious that the twin-engine plane was doomed, some of the 23 passengers began to jump out of the plane in panic. The Vic couple jumped out too, each with a child in their arms. Robert Vick and Paul, who was in his arms, were the only ones to survive.
Robert died 40 hours later, but he managed to tell hospital staff the names of Paul's grandparents, as well as their address in the United States. The baby, whose legs were broken, was sent to them after treatment of his injuries.
8. Wong Yu: the world's first hijacker who crashed a plane and survived it
One of the most controversial figures on this list is Wong Yu, who attempted to hijack Cathay Pacific's Miss Macau plane in 1948, but the plane crashed, killing 25 people.
The PBY Catalina carried extremely wealthy passengers and became the first hijacked aircraft in aviation history. The fishermen saw the plane crash into the water. At the crash site, they found a semi-conscious man floating, Wong Yu. It was eventually determined that Wong Yu was one of the hijackers, after which he spent three years in prison.
