List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents

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Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the crash of the Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia, in 1959.

In the history of aviation, there have been a small number of "sole survivors" of airline crashes.[1] Lone survivors are often left with physical and psychological injuries.[1] The youngest sole survivor is Paul Ashton Vick who on 28 January 1947, survived a China National Aviation Corporation crash when he was just 18 months old.[2] His father survived long enough to write down directions for returning the child to his grandparents before succumbing to his wounds.[2]

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). There was some controversy in 2009 when it was reported that her story might have been communist propaganda, but black box data strongly supported the official story.[3]

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.[4] The earliest known sole survivor is Linda McDonald. On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash that killed ten other people, including her boyfriend.[5]

Since 1970, one-third of lone survivors of airline crashes have been children or flight crew.[6]

List

Note that, under "Position", P = Passenger and C = Crew

Name Age Position Operator Flight/info Date Fatalities Refs
Linda McDonald 17 P Skyways Skyways sightseeing plane disaster 5 September 1936 10 [5]
Clarence Bates C Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines Flight 5 30 October 1941 14 [7]
Lt Andrew Jack 24 C RAF RAF Short Sunderland flying boat crash killing Prince George, Duke of Kent 25 August 1942 15 [8]
John Alfred Howard 26 P Pan American-Grace Airways Flight 9 22 January 1943 14 [9]
Foye Kenneth Roberts 22 P U.S. Army Air Forces Bakers Creek air crash 14 June 1943 40 [10]
Eduard Prchal 32 C RAF Gibraltar disaster of the Liberator II in which Commander in Chief of Polish Forces General Władysław Sikorski was killed. 4 July 1943 10
Peter Link 3 P Trans-Luxury Airlines California Trans-Luxury Airlines crash 5 September 1946 20 [11]
William Ellis Keyes, Jr. 25 P Eastern Airlines Flight 665 12 January 1947 18 [12]
Paul Ashton Vick 18 months P China National Aviation Corporation Hankou crash 28 January 1947 25 [2]
Eugene Leonard 38 P Air France Lisbon mountain crash 1 February 1947 15 [13]
Tripolina Meo 33 P Delta Air Lines Flight 705 10 March 1948 12 [14][15]
Mark Worst P Pan Am Flight 1–10 15 April 1948 30 [16][17]
Moutafis P Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash 12 May 1948 31 [18][19]
Huang Yu (Chinese: 黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù, Cantonese: Wong Yu) 24 P Cathay Pacific Miss Macao 17 July 1948 25 [4]
Isaac Allal 12 P Aero Holland Hurum air disaster 20 November 1949 34 [20][21]
Olga Rada 10 P LANSA Galeras Douglas C-47 crash 24 May 1950 25 [22][23]
Sgt. Haru Sazaki U.S. Air Force Douglas C-47 crash 27 July 1950 25 [24][25]
Maj. David Lowther RAF South China Sea Douglas C-47 crash 30 August 1950 9 [26]
P/O P. D. Cliff P RAF 1954 Aldbury Valetta accident 6 January 1954 16 [27]
Paul Olsen C Royal Norwegian Air Force Bjørnøya Accident 28 March 1954 8 [28]
Concetta Finamore P Linee Aeree Italiane LAI Flight 451 24 November 1956 34
Néstor Mata 31 P Philippine Air Force Cebu Douglas C-47 crash 17 March 1957 25 [29]
P Eagle Aviation Limited 1957 Blackbushe Viking accident 1 May 1957 34
Phil Bradley 33 P Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 30 October 1959 26 [30][31]
Louis Matarazzo P Allegheny Airlines Flight 371 1 December 1959 25 [32]
Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet 29 C U.S. Air Force USAF Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation crash 25 April 1967 15 [33]
Capt. George A. Burk 28 P U.S. Air Force T-29 Convair crash 4 May 1970 13 [34]
Juan Loo 26 C LANSA Flight 502 9 August 1970 99 [35]
Lt. Christopher E. Schiess 24 C Hughes Airwest / U.S. Marine Corps Mid-air collision with Flight 706 6 June 1971 50 [36]
Juliane Koepcke 17 P LANSA Flight 508 24 December 1971 91 [6]
Vesna Vulović 22 C JAT Yugoslav Flight 367 26 January 1972 27 [37]
Neil James Campbell P Pan Am Flight 816 22 July 1973 78 [38]
John McCafferty 16 P Downeast Airlines Flight 46 30 May 1979 17 [39]
Larisa Savitskaya 20 P Aeroflot Flight 811 24 August 1981 31 [40][41]
Remberto Aparicio 26 P Taxi Aéreo El Venado 1981 Paipa Embraer Bandeirante crash 2 September 1981 21 [42][43]
AT2 Melissa Kelly 30 P U.S. Navy USN Convair C-131 crash 30 April 1983 14 [44]
27 P Aeroflot Flight 3519 23 December 1984 110 [45]
George Lamson Jr. 17 P Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 21 January 1985 70 [37]
Prof. Neuba Yessoh P VARIG Flight 797 3 January 1987 50 [46][47]
Cecelia Cichan 4 P Northwest Airlines Flight 255 16 August 1987 154 [6]
Lt. Edilberto Villar C Peruvian Navy Alianza Lima air disaster 8 December 1987 43 [48]
Bambang Sumadi P Indonesian Air Force 1991 Indonesian Air force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash 5 October 1991 136 [49]
Annette Herfkens 31 P Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 14 November 1992 30 [50]
Erika Delgado 9 P Intercontinental de Aviación Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256 11 January 1995 52 [37]
Ulziibayar Sanjaa 27 P MIAT Mongolian Airlines 21 September 1995 42 [51]
1 P Vietnam Airlines Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 5 September 1936 65 [52]
Sergei Petrov 37 C Tajik Air Flight 3183 15 December 1997 85 [53]
Youcef Djillali 28 P Air Algérie Flight 6289 6 March 2003 102 [53]
Lt. Martin Farkaš P Slovak Air Force Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash 19 January 2006 42 [37]
James M. Polehinke C Comair Flight 5191 27 August 2006 49 [54]
Abdülkadir Akyüz P AerianTur-M 2007 Balad aircraft crash 9 January 2007 34 [55][56]
Surendra Kunwar C Yeti Airlines Flight 103 8 October 2008 18 [57]
Robert Decker 28 P Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 12 March 2009 17 [58]
Bahia Bakari 14 P Yemenia Flight 626 30 June 2009 152 [6]
Ruben van Assouw 8[59]
or 9[60][61]
or 10[6]		 P Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 12 May 2010 103 [6]
P Filair 2010 Bandundu Filair Let L-410 crash 25 August 2010 20 [62]
Francis Mwamba P Georgian Airways / United Nations United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash 4 April 2011 32 [63]
Alexander Sizov 52 C Yak-Service 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster 7 September 2011 44 [64][65]
Nimer Djelloul 21 P Algerian Air Force 2014 Algeria Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash 11 February 2014 77 [66][67]

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