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, USA in 1959.

Since 1970, two-thirds of lone survivors of airline crashes have been children or flight crew.[1] Many who survive large scale disasters suffer from what is labeled in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as survivors' guilt. Dr Stephen Joseph, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, has studied the survivors of the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise which killed 193 of the 459 passengers.[2] His studies showed that 60 per cent of survivors suffered from guilt. Dr Stephen Joseph went on to say: "There were three types: first, there was guilt about staying alive while others died; second, there was a guilt about the things they failed to do – these people often suffered post-traumatic 'intrusions' as they relived the event again and again; third, there were feelings of guilt about what they did do, such as scrambling over others to escape. These people usually wanted to avoid thinking about the catastrophe. They didn't want to be reminded of what really happened." Lone survivors often have a more difficult time dealing with "survivors' guilt" because unlike survivors of disasters where there are multiple individuals lone survivors have no one to relate to, no support groups or survivors' organizations.[1]

Due to the large number of people involved in an airline flight, being a lone survivor of a crash is statistically improbable.[3] Lone survivors are often left with physical and psychological injuries.[3] The youngest sole survivor is Paul Ashton Vick who on January 28, 1947, survived a China National Aviation Corporation crash when he was just 18 months old.[4] His father survived long enough to write down directions to his grandparents before succumbing to his wounds.[4] Another sole survivor is 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),[5] although further investigation after the fall of communism has cast doubt on the official story.[5] Possibly the only lone survivor of a midair collision in history was Petty Officer Third Class Bruce N. Mallibert, who survived the collision of a U.S. Navy P-3C Orion and a NASA Convair 990 on final approach to Moffett Field NAS in 1973.[6] One of the more controversial lone survivors was Wong Yu (Chinese: 黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù) who tried to hijack a Cathay Pacific flight in 1948 but ended up crashing the plane killing the other 25 people on board.[7] The earliest crash survivor to have been the only one who walked away alive is Linda McDonald. On September 5, 1936, she was the only one who got out of the Skyways sightseeing plane crash that killed 10 other people, including her boyfriend.[8]

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Name Age [A 1] Position [A 2] Operator Flight/info Date Fatalities Refs [A 3]
Linda McDonald 17 P Skyways Skyways sightseeing plane disaster 5 September 1936 10 [8]
Clarence Bates C Northwest Airlines Flight 5 30 October 1941 14 [9]
Lt. Andrew Jack 24 C RAF RAF Short Sunderland flying boat crash killing Prince George, Duke of Kent 25 August 1942 15 [10]
John Alfred Howard 26 P Pan American-Grace Airways Flight 9 22 January 1943 14 [11]
Foye Kenneth Roberts 22 P USAAF Bakers Creek air crash 14 June 1943 40 [12]
RAF Marseille Douglas C-47 crash 15 January 1946 25 [13]
Peter Link 2 P Trans-Luxury Airlines California Trans-Luxury Airlines crash 5 September 1946 20 [14]
William Ellis Keyes, Jr. 25 P Eastern Airlines Flight 665 12 January 1947 18 [15]
Paul Ashton Vick 1.5 [A 4] P China National Aviation Corporation Hankou crash 28 January 1947 25 [4]
Eugene Leonard 38 P Air France Lisbon mountain crash 1 February 1947 15 [16]
Tripolina Meo 33 P Delta Air Lines Flight 705 10 March 1948 12 [17][18]
Mark Worst P Pan Am Flight 1-10 15 April 1948 30 [19][20]
Moutafis P Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash 12 May 1948 31 [21][22]
Wong Yu [A 5] 24 P Cathay Pacific Miss Macao 17 July 1948 25 [7]
Isaac Allal 12 P Aero Holland Hurum air disaster 20 November 1949 34 [23][24]
Olga Rada 10 P LANSA Galeras Douglas C-47 crash 24 May 1950 25 [25][26]
USAF Douglas C-47 crash 27 July 1950 25 [27]
Maj. David Lowther RAF South China Sea Douglas C-47 crash 30 August 1950 9 [28]
P Jat Airways Zagreb Douglas DC-3 crash 21 September 1950 10 [29]
P/O P. D. Cliff P RAF 1954 Aldbury Valetta accident 6 January 1954 16 [30]
Néstor Mata 31 P Philippine Air Force Cebu Douglas C-47 crash 17 March 1957 25 [31]
Phil Bradley P Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 30 October 1959 26 [32]
Louis Matarazzo P Allegheny Airlines Flight 371 1 December 1959 25 [33]
Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet 29 C USAF USAF Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation crash 25 April 1967 15 [34]
Juan Loo 26 P LANSA Flight 502 9 August 1970 99 [35]
Juliane Koepcke 17 P LANSA Flight 508 24 December 1971 91 [1]
Vesna Vulović 22 C JAT Yugoslav Flight 367 26 January 1972 27 [36]
PO3 Bruce N. Mallibert C USN Midair collision of USN P-3C Orion and NASA Convair 990 12 April 1973 16 [6]
Neil James Campbell P Pan Am Flight 816 22 July 1973 78 [17]
John McCafferty 16 P Downeast Airlines Flight 46 30 May 1979 17 [37]
Larisa Savitskaya 20 P Aeroflot Flight 811 24 August 1981 31 [38][39]
AT2 Melissa Kelly 30 P USN USN Convair C-131 crash 30 April 1983 14 [40]
George Lamson Jr. 17 P Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 21 January 1985 70 [36]
Prof. Neuba Yessoh P VARIG Flight 797 3 January 1987 50 [41][42]
Cecelia Cichan 4 P Northwest Airlines Flight 255 16 August 1987 154 [1]
Lt. Edilberto Villar C Peruvian Navy Alianza Lima air disaster December 8, 1987 43 [43]
Bambang Sumadi P Indonesian Air Force 1991 Indonesian Air Force Disaster October 5, 1991 136 [44]
Annette Herfkens 31 P Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 14 November 1992 30 [45]
Rade Jevremovich 23 P Avioimpex Avioimpex Flight 20 November 1993 115 [46]
Erika Delgado 9 P Intercontinental de Aviación Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256 11 January 1995 52 [36]
Sergei Petrov 37 C Tajik Air Tajik Air Flight 3183 15 December 1997 85 [47]
Youcef Djillali 28 P Air Algérie Flight 6289 6 March 2003 102 [47]
Mohammed el-Fateh Osman [A 6] 2 P Sudan Airways Flight 139 8 July 2003 116 [36]
Lt. Martin Farkas P Slovak Air Force Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash 19 January 2006 42 [36]
James M. Polehinke C Comair Flight 5191 27 August 2006 49 [48]
Abdülkadir Akyüz P AerianTur-M 2007 Balad aircraft crash 9 January 2007 34 [49][50]
Surendra Kunwar C Yeti Airlines Flight 103 8 October 2008 18 [17]
Robert Decker 28 P Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 12 March 2009 17 [51]
Bahia Bakari 12 P Yemenia Flight 626 30 June 2009 152 [1]
Ruben van Assouw 9 [A 7] P Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 12 May 2010 103 [1]
P Filair 2010 Bandundu Filair Let L-410 crash 25 August 2010 20 [55]
Francis Mwamba P Georgian Airways / United Nations United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash 4 April 2011 32
Will Slattery P May 2005 7 Will, along with friends Manny Sanchez and Jimmy Simplicio, go on a skydiving trip in Costa Rica along with the pilot and two other passengers. A storm hits, forcing Will, Jimmy, and Manny to jump out with their parachutes in order to save themselves. Will escapes his parachute and stays adrift for 24 hours until a fishing boat spotted and pulled him out of sea.
Alexander Sizov 42 C Yak-Service Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash 7 September 2011 44 [56] [56]

[edit] Annotations

  1. ^ Age at the time of the crash
  2. ^
    P= Passenger
    C=Crew
  3. ^ References
  4. ^ 18 months
  5. ^ His name can be spelled alternately: (Chinese: 黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù, Cantonese: Wong Yu)
  6. ^ Later succumbed to his injuries
  7. ^ Due to the confusing nature of a plane crash Ruben van Assouw's true age covers a range of about three years. BBC News lists him as a 10-years-old.[1] CNN gives him the age of 8-year-old[52] and Dutch paper Brabants Dagblad says he was 9-years-old.[53] The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that he was 9-years-old as well.[54]

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References
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  • US Congress (2003). Congressional Record (2003 ed.). Government Printing Office.  - Total pages: 15591
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