List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents

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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.

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History

Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. Piedmont flight 349 wreckage.jpg
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 Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff. It was unsuccessful, however, as the aircraft slammed into a sand filled steel railroad car, killing all 13 in the cabin and a person in the cockpit. At the time of the accident, he was 34 years old. [1]

The earliest known female 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. She was 17 at the time. [2]

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.

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. [3] [4]

Notable sole survivors

List

DateSole survivor (if known)Nationality [a] Age [b] Gender [c] P/COperatorFlight / informationFatalitiesNotesSource
1929-03-17Lou Foote Flag of the United States.svg 34MaleCColonial Western Airlines Newark crash14 [5]
1930-08-22Vojtěch Kraus Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 30MaleP ČSA Československé Aerolinie Jihlava crash12 [6] [7]
1935-12-31Vernon Gorry Wilson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 33MaleC Imperial Airways Nile crash near Alexandria 12 [8]
1936-09-05Linda McDonald Flag of the United States.svg 17FemalePSkywaySkyway sightseeing plane9 [2]
1936-09-24C Ala Littoria CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi 9 [9]
1939-11-17C Spanish Air Force Cap Juby Ju 52 ditching10 [10]
1940-04-09Ogwyn George Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg 21MaleCRAF Sylling crash9 [11] [12]
1941-10-30Clarence Bates Flag of the United States.svg 41MaleC Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines Flight 5 14Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later. [13]
1942-08-25Sgt Andrew Jack Flag of Scotland.svg 20MaleC Royal Air Force Dunbeath Air Crash 15 [14]
1943-01-22John Alfred Howard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 26MaleP Pan American-Grace Airways Flight 914 [15]
1943-06-14Foye Kenneth Roberts Flag of the United States.svg 22MaleP U.S. Army Air Forces Bakers Creek air crash 40 [16]
1946-09-05Peter Link Flag of the United States.svg 3MalePTrans-Luxury AirlinesCalifornia Trans-Luxury Airlines20 [17] [18]
1947-01-12William Ellis Keyes, Jr. Flag of the United States.svg 25MaleP Eastern Airlines Flight 66518 [19]
1947-01-28Paul Ashton Vick Flag of the United States.svg 1MaleP China National Aviation Corporation Hankou crash25 [20]
1947-02-01Eugene Leonard Flag of France.svg 38MaleP Air France Lisbon mountain crash15 [21]
1948-03-10Tripolina Meo Flag of the United States.svg 33FemaleP Delta Air Lines Flight 705 12 [22] [23]
1948-04-15Mark Worst Flag of the United States.svg MaleP Pan Am Flight 1–10 30 [24] [25]
1948-05-12Georges Moutafis Flag of Egypt.svg MaleP Sabena Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash 31 [26] [27]
1948-07-17Huang Yu [d] Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 24MaleP Cathay Pacific Miss Macao 25 [28] [29]
1949-11-20Isaac Allal Flag of Tunisia.svg 12MaleP Aero Holland Hurum air disaster 34 [30] [31]
1950-05-24Olga Rada Flag of Colombia.svg 10FemaleP LANSA Galeras Douglas C-4725 [32] [33]
1950-07-27Sgt. Haru "Harry" Sazaki Flag of the United States.svg 31MaleP U.S. Air Force Douglas C-4725 [34] [35]
1953-05-17Hazel Cox Flag of the United States.svg 21FemaleP Delta Air Lines Flight 318 19 [36]
1954-01-06P/O P. D. Cliff Flag of the United Kingdom.svg MaleP RAF Aldbury Valetta accident 16 [37]
1954-08-26 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 40MaleP Aeroflot Flight 97126Former Soviet Army Colonel[ citation needed ]
1956-11-24Concetta Finamore Flag of Italy.svg FemaleP Linee Aeree Italiane LAI Flight 451 Paris crash34 [38] [39]
1957-03-17 Nestor Mata Flag of the Philippines.svg 31MaleP Philippine Air Force Cebu Douglas C-47 crash 25 [40]
1957-05-01Ernest Taylor Flag of the United Kingdom.svg MaleP Eagle Aviation Limited Blackbushe Viking accident 34 [41]
1959-01-16Roberto Servente Flag of Argentina.svg 39MaleP Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 51 [42] [43]
1959-10-30Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley Flag of the United States.svg 33MaleP Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 26 [44] [45]
1959-12-01Louis Matarazzo Flag of the United States.svg 35MaleP Allegheny Airlines Flight 371 25 [46] [47]
1965-04-14Dominique Silliere Flag of France.svg 22FemaleC British United Airways British United Airways Flight 1030X 26Flight Attendant aboard Flight 1030X. [48]
1967-04-25Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet Flag of the United States.svg 29MaleC U.S. Air Force Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation15 [49]
1968-02-29Vassily Andrienko Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 21MaleP Aeroflot Flight 15 83 [50]
1968-03-09Michèle Renard Flag of France.svg 27FemalePGroupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM) 1968 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash 19 [51] [52]
1970-05-04Capt. George A. Burk Flag of the United States.svg 28MaleP U.S. Air Force T-29 Convair13 [53]
1970-08-09Juan Loo Flag of Peru.svg 26MaleC LANSA Flight 502 99First Officer of Flight 502. [54]
1971-06-06Lt. Christopher E. Schiess Flag of the United States.svg 24MaleC United States Marine Corps F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706 50 [55] [56]
1971-12-24 Juliane Koepcke Flag of Germany.svg 17FemaleP LANSA Flight 508 91 [57]
1972-01-26 Vesna Vulović Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg 22FemaleC JAT Yugoslav Flight 367 27Flight Attendant aboard Flight 367. Holds world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. [58]
1973-07-22Neil James Campbell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 28MaleP Pan Am Flight 816 78 [59] [60]
1979-01-15Vika Bendeberya Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 3FemaleP Aeroflot Antonov An-24 crash in Minsk 13 [61]
1979-05-30John McCafferty Flag of the United States.svg 16MaleP Downeast Airlines Flight 46 17 [62]
1981-08-24Larisa Savitskaya Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 20FemaleP Aeroflot Flight 811 31Survived falling from approximately 14,000ft, with the fall lasting 8 minutes. Survived with broken bones and a concussion. [63] [64]
1981-09-02Remberto Aparicio Flag of Colombia.svg 26MalePTaxi Aéreo El VenadoEmbraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa21 [65] [66]
1983-04-30AT2 Melissa Kelly Flag of the United States.svg 30FemaleP U.S. Navy Convair C-13114 [67]
1984-12-23 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 27MaleP Aeroflot Flight 3519 110[ citation needed ]
1985-01-21George Lamson Jr. Flag of the United States.svg 17MaleP Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 70 [58]
1985-02-22Ouologuem Flag of Mali.svg MaleP Air Mali Air Mali (TZ-ACT) crash 51 [68] [69]
1987-01-03Neuba Yessoh Damase Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg 44MaleP VARIG Flight 797 50 [70] [71]
1987-08-16Cecelia Cichan [e] Flag of the United States.svg 4FemaleP Northwest Airlines Flight 255 156 [57]
1987-12-08Lt. Edilberto Villar Flag of Peru.svg MaleC Peruvian Navy Alianza Lima air disaster 43Captain of the flight. [73]
1988-12-11Fahraddin Balaev Flag of Azerbaijan.svg MaleP Soviet Air Force 1988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash 77 [74]
1991-10-05Bambang Sumadi Flag of Indonesia.svg 25MaleP Indonesian Air Force Indonesian Air Force A-1324 crash 135 [75]
1992-11-14Annette Herfkens Flag of the Netherlands.svg 31FemaleP Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 30 [76]
1993-12-26P Kuban Airlines Flight GW-5719 35 [77]
1995-01-11Erika Delgado Flag of Colombia.svg 9FemaleP Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256 52 [58]
1995-09-21Ulziibayar Sanjaa Flag of Mongolia.svg 27MaleP MIAT Mongolian Airlines Flight 557 42 [78]
1996-12-07Irianto Flag of Indonesia.svg 40MaleP Dirgantara Air Service Flight 5940 18 [79]
1997-09-03Chanayuth Nim-anong Flag of Thailand.svg 14 monthsMaleP Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 65Youngest sole survivor as of 2024. The final report on this accident states that there were two survivors. [80] [81]
1997-12-15Sergei Petrov Flag of Tajikistan.svg 37MaleC Tajik Air Flight 3183 85Navigator of Flight 3183. [82] [83]
2001-03-17Manuel González Pérez Flag of Spain.svg 25MaleP Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira Beechcraft 1900 crash in Angola 16 [84] [85]
2003-03-06Youcef Djillali Flag of Algeria.svg 28MaleP Air Algérie Flight 6289 102 [83]
2003-07-08Mohammed el-Fateh Osman Flag of Sudan.svg 2MaleP Sudan Airways Flight 139 116 [58] [86]
2006-01-19Lt. Martin Farkaš Flag of Slovakia.svg 27MaleP Slovak Air Force Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash 42 [87] [88]
2006-08-27James M. Polehinke Flag of the United States.svg 44MaleC Comair Flight 5191 49First Officer of Flight 5191. [89]
2007-01-09Abdülkadir Akyüz Flag of Turkey.svg 31MaleP AerianTur-M AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crash 34 [90] [91]
2007-08-26MaleP Great Lakes Business Company Kongolo Antonov An-32B crash14 [92]
2008-10-08Surendra Kunwar Flag of Nepal.svg MaleC Yeti Airlines Flight 101 18Captain of Flight 101. [93]
2009-03-12Robert Decker Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 28MaleP Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 17 [94]
2009-06-30 Bahia Bakari Flag of France.svg 12FemaleP Yemenia Flight 626 152 [57]
2010-05-12Ruben van Assouw Flag of the Netherlands.svg 9MaleP Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 103 [57] [95] [96]
2010-08-25P Filair Bandundu Filair Let L-410 crash 20 [97]
2011-04-04Francis Mwamba Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg MaleP Georgian Airways / United Nations United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash 32 [98] [99]
2011-09-07Alexander Sizov Flag of Russia.svg 52MaleC Yak-Service 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash 44Oldest sole survivor as of 2024. [100] [101]
2014-02-11Nimer Djelloul Flag of Algeria.svg 21MaleP Algerian Air Force Algerian Air Force 7T-WHM crash 77 [102] [103]
2018-05-18Mailen Diaz Almaguer Flag of Cuba.svg 19FemaleP Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 112 [104] [105] [106]
2019-01-14Farshad Mahdavinejad Flag of Iran.svg MaleC Saha Airlines Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash 15Flight Engineer of the flight. [107] [108]
2019-11-24Muma Emmanuel Flag of Cameroon.svg MalePBusy Bee Congo 2019 Busy Bee Congo crash 26 [109]
2020-09-25Viacheslav Zolochevsky Flag of Ukraine.svg 20MaleP Ukrainian Air Force 2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash 26 [110]
2024-07-24Manish Shakya Flag of Nepal.svg 37MaleC Saurya Airlines 2024 Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash 18Captain of the flight. [111] [112]

Notes

  1. Country of individual(s)
  2. Age when the accident occurred
  3. Male/Female
  4. Chinese :黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù, Cantonese: Wong Yu
  5. Later known by her married name, Crocker. [72]

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