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, and aircraft collisions (ground or flight) in which the sole occupant of the opposing aircraft survives (e.g., All Nippon Airways Flight 58 and Eastern Air Lines Flight 537). Also excluded 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. It is noteworthy that some of the sole survivors listed have their names, nationalities, and age at the time of crash unknown or undisclosed.

The most recent aviation accident with a sole survivor is Air India Flight 171, which crashed on 12 June 2025.

History

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 34 year old Lou Foote, of United States. He was the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight on 17 March 1929, when it crashed into a sand filled freight car in an unsuccessful forced landing due to engine failure. Foote was thrown out on impact and suffered serious injuries, the crash killed all 13 in the cabin and a person on the cockpit. ^[1]

The earliest known female sole survivor is 17 year old Linda McDonald, of United States. She survived a local sightseeing crash 5 September 1936, shortly after takeoff following loss of power on it’s engines. McDonald was uninjured and is able to escape after impact, all 10 onboard, including her boyfriend, died as the monoplane burned. ^[2]

The deadliest aviation disaster to have a sole survivor is Air India Flight 171, which crashed in Ahmedabad, India on 12 June 2025, killing 241 of the 242 people on board the aircraft, and 19 people on the ground.

The youngest sole survivor known is Chanayuth Nim-anong from Thailand, who was just 14 months old when he survived the crash of his Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 on 3 September 1997, which had 65 deaths in total. Conversely, the oldest known sole survivor is Russian Alexander Sizov, who was 52 years of age when YAK-Service Flight 9633 crashed on 7 September 2011, with 44 fatalities. ^{[3] [4]}

List

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Date	Sole survivor (if known)	Nationality [a]	Age [b]	Gender	P/C	Operator	Flight / information	Fatalities	Notes	Source
1929-03-17	Lou Foote	United States	34	Male	C	Colonial Western Airlines	Ford Trimotor crash in Newark	14		[5] [6]
1930-08-22	Vojtěch Kraus	Czechoslovakia	30	Male	P	Czechoslovak Airlines	Ford Trimotor crash in Jihlava	12		[7] [8]
1935-12-31	Vernon Gorry Wilson	United Kingdom	33	Male	C	Imperial Airways	Short Calcutta crash on the Nile near Alexandria	12		[9] [10]
1936-09-05	Linda McDonald	United States	17	Female	P	Pittsburgh Skyways	Stinson 6000 crash in Pittsburgh	10		[11] [12]
1936-09-24				Male	C	Ala Littoria	CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi	9		[13] [14]
1939-11-17					C	Spanish Air Force	Ju 52 ditching off Cape Juby	10		[15]
1941-10-30	Clarence Bates	United States	41	Male	C	Northwest Airlines	Flight 5	14	Captain of the flight. Died in another plane crash one year later.	[16]
1942-08-25	Sgt Andrew Jack	United Kingdom	20	Male	C	Royal Air Force	Dunbeath air crash	15		[17]
1943-01-22	John Alfred Howard	United Kingdom	26	Male	P	Pan American-Grace Airways	Flight 9	14		[18]
1943-06-14	Foye Kenneth Roberts	United States	22	Male	P	U.S. Army Air Forces	Bakers Creek air crash	40		[19]
1943-07-04	Eduard Prchal	Czechoslovakia	33	Male	C	Royal Air Force	Gibraltar Liberator AL523 crash	16		[20]
1945-03-05		Nazi Germany		Female	P	Luftwaffe	Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash	80		[21]
1946-09-05	Peter Link	United States	3	Male	P	Trans-Luxury Airlines	Douglas C-47 crash in Elko	20		[22] [23]
1947-01-12	William Keyes Jr.	United States	25	Male	P	Eastern Air Lines	Flight 665	18		[24] [25]
1947-01-28	Paul Ashton Vick	United States	1 (16 months)	Male	P	China National Aviation Corporation	Curtiss C-46 Commando crash in Hankou	25		[26] [27]
1947-02-01	Eugene Leonard	France	38	Male	P	Air France	Sintra Douglas C-47 crash	15		[28]
1948-03-10	Tripolina Meo	United States	33	Female	P	Delta Air Lines	Flight 705	12		[29] [30]
1948-04-15	Mark Worst	United States	38	Male	P	Pan Am	Flight 1–10	30		[31] [32]
1948-04-24					P	Aeroflot	Bodaybo Lisunov Li-2 crash	28		[33]
1948-05-12	Georges Moutafis	Egypt		Male	P	Sabena	Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash	31		[34] [35]
1948-07-17	Huang Yu [c]	Republic of China (1912–1949)	24	Male	P	Cathay Pacific	Miss Macao	25	One of four hijackers of the aircraft.	[36] [37]
1949-07-21					C	Aeroflot	Ilyushin Il-12 crash in Nizhneudinsk	13		[38]
1949-11-20	Isaac Allal	Tunisia	12	Male	P	Aero Holland	Hurum air disaster	34		[39] [40]
1950-05-24	Olga Rada	Colombia	10	Female	P	LANSA	Galeras Douglas C-47 crash	25		[41] [42]
1950-07-27	Sgt. Haru "Harry" Sazaki	United States	31	Male	P	U.S. Air Force	Douglas C-47 crash near Ōshima Island	25		[43] [44]
1950-10-17	James McKissick	United Kingdom	33	Male	C	British European Airways	Mill Hill Douglas C-47 crash	28	Flight attendant on the flight.	[45] [46]
1950-12-30	Susana Castilla	Argentina	7	Female	P	Aerolíneas Argentinas	Douglas C-47 crash in Camet	17		[47] [48]
1951-03-25					P	Aeroflot	Lisunov Li-2 crash in Iskra	12		[49]
1953-05-17	Hazel Cox	United States	21	Female	P	Delta Air Lines	Flight 318	19		[50] [51]
1953-10-31					P	Aeroflot	Lisunov Li-2 crash near Kharkiv Airport	15		[52]
1954-01-06	Patrick Cliff	United Kingdom	19	Male	P	Royal Air Force	Aldbury Valetta accident	16		[53] [54]
1954-08-26		Soviet Union	40	Male	P	Aeroflot	Lisunov Li-2 crash near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	26		[55]
1956-05-24	Roberto Ovando	Guatemala	22	Male	P	Aviateca	Douglas DC-3 crash near Rio Hondo	30		[56] [57]
1956-11-24	Concetta Finamore	Italy		Female	P	Linee Aeree Italiane	Flight 451	34		[58] [59]
1957-03-17	Nestor Mata	Philippines	31	Male	P	Philippine Air Force	Cebu Douglas C-47 crash	25		[60]
1957-05-01	Ernest Taylor	United Kingdom	25	Male	P	Eagle Aviation Limited	Blackbushe Viking accident	34		[61] [62]
1957-10-01					P	Aeroflot	Flight 11	27		[63]
1958-08-11	Cassiano Cirilo Anunciação	Brazil	27	Male	P	Lóide Aéreo Nacional	Douglas DC-4 crash in Belém	10		[64] [65]
1959-01-16	Roberto Servente	Argentina	39	Male	P	Austral Líneas Aéreas	Flight 205	51		[66] [67]
1959-10-23					P	Aeroflot	Flight 200	28		[68]
1959-10-30	Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley	United States	33	Male	P	Piedmont Airlines	Flight 349	26		[69] [70]
1959-12-01	Louis Matarazzo	United States	35	Male	P	Allegheny Airlines	Flight 371	25		[71] [72]
1960-02-26		Soviet Union	33	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 315	32		[73]
1961-09-23	Salih Kalafatoğlu	Turkey	40	Male	P	Turkish Airlines	Flight 835	28		[74] [75]
1962-01-27					C	Aeroflot	Antonov An-10 training crash in Baratayevka Airport	13		[76]
1963-08-12	Elsa Simon	France	5	Female	P	Air Inter	Flight 2611	16 [d]		[77] [78]
1965-04-14	Dominique Sillière	France	22	Female	C	British United Airways	Flight 1030X	26	Flight attendant on the flight.	[79] [80]
1967-04-25	Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet	United States	29	Male	C	U.S. Air Force	Lockheed EC-121H crash off Nantucket Island	15		[81]
1968-02-29	Vassily Andrienko	Soviet Union	21	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 15	83		[82]
1968-03-09	Michèle Renard	France	27	Female	P	Groupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM)	Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash	19		[83] [84]
1970-01-25	Jesús Kramsky	Mexico	22	Male	P	Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE)	Convair CV-240 crash in Veracruz	19		[85] [86]
1970-05-04	Capt. George A. Burk	United States	28	Male	P	U.S. Air Force	Convair T-29 crash near Hamilton Air Force Base	13		[87]
1970-08-09	Juan Loo	Peru	26	Male	C	LANSA	Flight 502	101 [e]	First Officer of the flight.	[88]
1971-06-06	Lt. Christopher E. Schiess	United States	24	Male	C	United States Marine Corps	F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706	50		[89] [90]
1971-12-24	Juliane Koepcke	West Germany	17	Female	P	LANSA	Flight 508	91		[91]
1972-01-26	Vesna Vulović	Yugoslavia	22	Female	C	JAT Airways	Flight 367	27	Flight attendant on the flight. Survived falling from 33,000 feet.	[92]
1973-07-22	Neil James Campbell	Canada	28	Male	P	Pan Am	Flight 816	78		[93] [94]
1977-07-20		Soviet Union	21	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight B-2	39		[95]
1979-01-15	Vika Bendeberya	Soviet Union	3	Female	P	Aeroflot	Antonov An-24 crash near Minsk-1 Airport	13		[96] [97]
1979-05-30	John McCafferty	United States	16	Male	P	Downeast Airlines	Flight 46	17		[98]
1981-08-24	Larisa Savitskaya	Soviet Union	20	Female	P	Aeroflot	Flight 811 mid-air collision with Soviet Air Forces Tu-16	37		[99] [100]
1981-09-02	Remberto Aparicio	Colombia	26	Male	P	Taxi Aéreo El Venado	Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa	21		[101] [102]
1983-04-30	Melissa Kelly	United States	30	Female	P	U.S. Navy	Convair C-131 crash in Jacksonville	14		[103] [104]
1984-12-23		Soviet Union	27	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 3519	110		[105]
1985-01-21	George Lamson Jr.	United States	17	Male	P	Galaxy Airlines	Flight 203	70		[92]
1985-02-22	Ouologuem	Mali		Male	P	Air Mali	Air Mali TZ-ACT crash	51		[106] [107]
1987-01-03	Neuba Yessoh Damase	Côte d'Ivoire	44	Male	P	Varig	Flight 797	50		[108] [109]
1987-08-16	Cecelia Cichan [f]	United States	4	Female	P	Northwest Airlines	Flight 255	156 [e]		[91]
1987-12-08	Lt. Edilberto Villar	Peru		Male	C	Peruvian Navy	Alianza Lima plane crash	43	Captain of the flight.	[111]
1988-12-11	Fahraddin Balaev	Soviet Union		Male	P	Soviet Air Force	Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash	77		[112]
1991-10-05	Bambang Sumadi	Indonesia	25	Male	P	Indonesian Air Force	Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash	135 [e]		[113]
1992-10-19					P	Aeroflot	Antonov An-28 crash in Syktyvkar	15		[114]
1992-11-14	Annette Herfkens	Netherlands	31	Female	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 474	30		[115]
1993-12-26	Smbat Martirosian	Georgia	21	Male	P	Kuban Airlines	Flight GW-5719	35		[116] [117]
1994-04-25	Nur Intan Fitriani	Indonesia	31	Female	P	Dirgantara Air Service	Britten-Norman Islander crash in Sintang	10		[118] [119]
1995-01-11	Erika Delgado	Colombia	9	Female	P	Intercontinental de Aviación	Flight 256	51		[92]
1995-09-21	Ulziibayar Sanjaa	Mongolia	27	Male	P	MIAT Mongolian Airlines	Flight 557	42		[120]
1996-12-07	Irianto	Indonesia	40	Male	P	Dirgantara Air Service	Flight 5940	18 [e]		[121]
1997-09-03	Chanayuth Nim-anong	Thailand	1 (14 months)	Male	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 815	65	Youngest known sole survivor, based on age at time of incident. Accident final report states two survivors, as another passenger initially survived but later died from his injuries.	[122] [123]
1997-12-15	Sergei Petrov	Tajikistan	37	Male	C	Tajik Air	Flight 3183	85	Navigator of the flight.	[124] [125]
2001-03-17	Manuel González Pérez	Spain	25	Male	P	Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira	Beechcraft 1900 crash in Quilemba	16		[126] [127]
2003-03-06	Youcef Djillali	Algeria	28	Male	P	Air Algérie	Flight 6289	102		[125]
2003-07-08	Mohammed el-Fateh Osman	Sudan	2	Male	P	Sudan Airways	Flight 139	116		[92] [128]
2006-01-19	Lt. Martin Farkaš	Slovakia	27	Male	P	Slovak Air Force	Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash	42		[129] [130]
2006-08-27	James M. Polehinke	United States	44	Male	C	Comair	Flight 5191	49	First Officer of the flight.	[131]
2007-01-09	Abdülkadir Akyüz	Turkey	31	Male	P	AerianTur-M	AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crash	34		[132] [133]
2007-08-26			2	Male	P	Great Lakes Business Company	Kongolo Antonov An-32B crash	14		[134]
2008-10-08	Surendra Kunwar	Nepal		Male	C	Yeti Airlines	Flight 101	18	Captain of the flight.	[135]
2009-03-12	Robert Decker	Canada	28	Male	P	Cougar Helicopters	Flight 91	17		[136]
2009-06-30	Bahia Bakari	France	12	Female	P	Yemenia	Flight 626	152		[91]
2010-05-12	Ruben van Assouw	Netherlands	9	Male	P	Afriqiyah Airways	Flight 771	103		[91] [137] [138]
2010-08-25					P	Filair	Filair Let L-410 crash	20		[139] [140]
2011-04-04	Francis Mwamba	Congo		Male	P	Georgian Airways / United Nations	Flight 834	32		[141] [142]
2011-09-07	Alexander Sizov	Russia	52	Male	C	Yak-Service	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash	44	Oldest known sole survivor, based on age at time of incident.	[143] [144]
2014-02-11	Nimer Djelloul	Algeria	21	Male	P	Algerian Air Force	Algerian Air Force C-130 crash	77		[145] [146]
2014-07-07	Đinh Văn Dương	Vietnam	31	Male	P	Vietnam Air Force	Mil Mi-171 crash in Hanoi	20	Initially 5 survivors	[147] [148]
2018-05-18	Mailen Diaz Almaguer	Cuba	19	Female	P	Cubana de Aviación	Flight 0972	112		[149] [150] [151]
2019-01-14	Farshad Mahdavinejad	Iran		Male	C	Saha Airlines	Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash	15	Flight Engineer of the flight.	[152] [153]
2019-11-24	Muma Emmanuel	Cameroon		Male	P	Busy Bee Congo	Busy Bee Congo Dornier 228 crash	27 [g]		[154]
2020-09-25	Viacheslav Zolochevsky	Ukraine	20	Male	P	Ukrainian Air Force	Chuhuiv An-26 crash	26		[155]
2024-07-24	Manish Shakya	Nepal	37	Male	C	Saurya Airlines	Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash	18	Captain of the flight.	[156] [157]
2025-01-29	Emmanuel Maker Makoi	South Sudan		Male	P	Light Air Services	Light Air Services Beechcraft 1900 crash	20		[158] [159]
2025-06-12	Vishwash Kumar Ramesh	United Kingdom	40	Male	P	Air India	Flight 171	260 [h]		[160] [161]

Aviation accidents and incidents where there was one sole fatality

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Date	Sole fatality (if known)	Nationality [i]	Age [j]	Gender	P/C	Operator	Flight / information	Survivors	Notes	Source
1973-11-03	George F. Gardner	United States		Male	P	National Airlines	Flight 27	127		[162]
1988-04-28	Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing	United States	58	Female	C	Aloha Airlines	Flight 243	94		[163]
1997-07-09	Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos	Brazil	38	Male	P	TAM Linhas Aéreas	Flight 283  [ pt ]	60		[164]
2001-09-15	Marlene Aparecida Sebastião dos Santos	Brazil	48	Female	P	TAM Linhas Aéreas	Flight 9755	87		[165]
2012-12-25	Ma Nwe Lin Shein	Myanmar		Male	P	Air Bagan	Flight 011	70	One person on the ground was also killed.	[166]
2016-02-02	Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh	Somalia	55	Male	P	Daallo Airlines	Flight 159	80	Suspected to have been the bomber.	[167]
2018-04-17	Jennifer Riordan	United States	43	Female	P	Southwest Airlines	Flight 1380	148		[168]
2019-10-17	David Allan Oltman	United States	38	Male	P	PenAir	Flight 3296	41		[169]

See also

• Aviation accidents and incidents

Notes

1. Country of individual(s)
2. Age when the accident occurred
3. Chinese :黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù, Cantonese: Wong Yu
4. Including 1 ground fatality
5. Including 2 ground fatalities
6. Later known by her married name, Crocker. ^[110]
7. Including 6 ground fatalities
8. Including 19 ground fatalities
9. Country of individual(s)
10. Age when the accident occurred

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