The article provides information on plane crashes of civilian aircraft(Sun) and aircraft(LA) of the Air Force (Air Force), in which only 1 (one) person survived from all passengers and crew. Date of publication: 07/29/2011 (updated 11/03/2015).
The most fatal plane crash on this list occurred on August 16, 1987 in the United States. Of 155 people on board DC-9-82 only 4-year-old Cecilia Sichan survived, having lost her family during the emergency.
1936 year
The first recorded case of a lone survivor of a plane crash was on September 5, 1936. During a sightseeing flight over Pittsburgh International Airport, USA, a Pittsburgh Skyways aircraft crashed - the type of aircraft is unknown. Ten people died, one 17-year-old girl survived, a passenger on the plane Linda Macdonald(Linda McDonald).
1941 year
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 wing icing. Of the 15 people on board, only the pilot survived. Clarence Bates(Clarence Bates).
In the photo: Short S.25 Sunderland aircraft
1942 year
Under unclear circumstances, on 25 August 1942, the Short S.25 Sunderland, a flying boat of the Royal Air Force, crashed in Scotland. Among the 14 dead was a member of the royal family, the Duke of Kent George, which became the basis for the version of the terrorist attack. Sole survivor - 24-year-old lieutenant Andrew Jack(Andrew Jack), a passenger on an airplane.
1943 year
John Howard(John Alfred Howard) - A 26-year-old passenger on Panagra Flight 9 and the sole survivor of the January 22, 1943 plane crash. A Douglas DC-3 plane collided with a mountain in the province of Caraveli, Peru, at an altitude of about 4 thousand meters. Due to insufficient training of dispatchers, six people died.
The 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. Sole survivor - 22-year-old passenger Foy Roberts(Foye Kenneth Roberts).
Czech pilot, 32 years old Edward Prchal(Eduard Prchal) On July 4, 1943, he was the only survivor of the crash over Gibraltar in a crash 16 seconds after takeoff of the 511 squadron of the RAF B-24 "Liberator II" ( tail number AL 523). There are 16 people in the crash, including the commander of the Polish troops and the prime minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, his daughter, as well as the chief of staff, General Tadeusz Klimecki. During the investigation, Prchal was unable to clearly explain why he donned a life jacket on this flight, although he usually did not resort to such a precaution, and who the second person was seen on the wing of the crashed plane.
1946 year
On September 5, 1946, while approaching the destination airfield, the Douglas DC-3, operated by Trans-Luxury Airlines, collided with the ground. 20 people were killed. Probable cause disasters in Elko County, Nevada - pilot error in spatial orientation in conditions of heavy fog. Only a two year old boy survived Peter Link(Peter Link), who was sitting in his mother's arms.
1947 year
Douglas DC-3, Eastern Air Lines Flight 665, crashed into a hill near Galaxy, United States on January 12, 1947. Of 19 people aboard the plane, only 25-year-old survived William Keys Jr.(William Ellis Keyes, Jr.). The cause of the crash has not been established, presumably - a pilot error.
On January 28, in China, near the city of Wuhan, 30 minutes after takeoff, the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando plane crashed. 25 people died, only 15-year-old survived Paul Vick(Paul Ashton Vick). The reasons for the crash of the plane are probably hidden, officially - not established.
In the photo: Douglas DC-3 aircraft Air France
On February 1, 1947, the Air France Douglas DC-3 fell and crashed for reasons unknown. The disaster took place in Portugal, not far from Lisbon. Sole survivor - 38-year-old Eugene Leonard(Eugene Leonard). Killed 15 passengers and crew members.
1948 year
March 10, 1948, Chicago, Douglas DC-4 crash, Delta Air Lines Flight 705. Soon after takeoff (heading for Miami), at an altitude of 60-100 meters, the plane began to turn up its nose sharply until it was in an almost vertical position. Then, having gained a height of up to 250 meters, he went into a stall on the right wing and eventually crashed into the ground with his bow. The exact reasons for the loss of longitudinal control of the aircraft have not been established. 12 people died, 33-year-old passenger survived Tripolina Mao(Tripolina Meo).
Ireland, near Shannon International Airport, April 15, 1948. At night, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation, PanAm Flight 1-10, descended before the end of the runway, hit a stone fence on the landing gear and collapsed. As a result of the disaster, 30 people died, the only survivor - Mark Worst(Mark Worst).
In the photo: Douglas DC-4 plane in Congo
On May 12, 1948, Douglas DC-4 of the Belgian state company in DR Congo, at an altitude of about 220 meters, hit the center of a thunderstorm front, sharply lost height and collapsed into the forest, killing 31 people. Survivor - Passenger named Mutafish(Moutafis).
Huang Yu(in Cantonese - Wong Yu) - The only 24-year-old survivor of the Cathay Pacific flight that crashed on July 17, 1948 at Cape Macau. 25 people were killed.
1949 year
On November 20, 1949, due to bad weather conditions in Norway, the Dutch plane Douglas DC-3 (Aero Holland company) fell into the forest and crashed. There were 10 adults and 26 children on board, of which only a 12-year-old survived Isaac Allal(Isaac Allal).
1950 year
10 year old Olga Rada(Olga Rada) is the sole survivor of the May 24, 1950 plane crash that occurred near Pasto, Colombia, with a LANSA Douglas C-47 Skytrain. The plane for an unknown reason collapsed 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 the Pacific Ocean. The causes of the disaster have not been established, the wreckage sank to a depth of over 1,500 meters. Of the 26 people, only a passenger survived, a 23-year-old sergeant Haru Sadzaki(Haru Sazaki).
Photo: Douglas C-47 Skytrain
On August 30, 1950, another Douglas C-47 Skytrain, a British Air Force plane, crashed near the Indonesian island of Jemaja. For an unknown reason, "Douglas" fell into the South China Sea, following the Singapore-Hong Kong route, killing nine people. Sole survivor - Major David Lowther(David Lowther).
1954 year
Oldbury Village, Hertfordshire, UK. Four minutes after takeoff on January 6, 1954, during a snowstorm, the Vickers Valetta T.3 of the RAF lost altitude and crashed into trees. 16 people died, survived - sergeant PiDi Cliff(P.D. Cliff). The causes of the disaster have not been definitively established.
In the photo: plane Vickers Valetta T.3
Paul Olsen(Paul Olsen) got his second chance in life on March 28, 1954, when he was the only survivor of the plane crash near Bear Island, Svalbard. During the fall of the RAF mail plane, 8 people were killed.
Photo: passengers of the Li-2 aircraft of the Far Eastern branch of Aeroflot
On August 26, near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a Li-2 aircraft of Aeroflot (Far Eastern territorial administration of the Civil Air Fleet, Khabarovsk air group) crashed into a hill during landing in low cloud conditions. As a result of the disaster, 26 people died, survived unknown lieutenant colonel of the Soviet army. A man of about 40 years old was taken to hospital in serious condition.
1956 year
Concetta Finamore(Concetta Finamore) is the sole surviving passenger of Linee Aeree Italiane's LAI Flight 451, which crashed on November 24, 1956. 34 people died.
Photo: the crash site of the Philippine presidential plane
1957 year
On March 17, 1957, the Douglas C-47 Skytrain presidential plane crashed in the Philippines, Cebu Island. As a result of insufficient climb due to a malfunction of electrical appliances, the plane crashed into a mountain after 40 minutes of flight. 25 people were killed, including the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay. Only the 31-year-old who was in the tail of the plane survived Nestor Mata(Néstor Mata).
In the photo: the plane of the airline Eagle Aviation Limited
On May 1, 1957, a Vickers VC.1 Viking plane crashed by Eagle Aviation Limited near Blackbush Airport, Hampshire, killed 34 people, mostly military personnel and their families. After the fall, four people were found alive and sent to the hospital, but only one passenger survived. whose name is not called.
1959 year
Due to a crew error on October 30, 1959, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, crashed into the 950-meter Bucks Elbow, White Hall, Virginia, 100 meters below its peak. Survivor Phila Bradley(Phil Bradley) was thrown out of the fuselage during the impact, along with the seat on which he was waiting for the rescuers, wearing a seat belt. The remaining 26 people on board were killed.
Pictured: Allegheny Airlines Martin 2-0-2
December 1, 1959, USA, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. On the approach to landing of a Martin 2-0-2, flight 371 of Allegheny Airlines, the crew went off course and the plane crashed into a mountain. 25 people died, survived - Luis Matarazzo(Louis Matarazzo).
1967 year
Lieutenant Joseph Guinette(Joseph "Leo" Guenet), 29, crew member of the Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation, US Air Force - lone survivor of the April 25, 1967 plane crash. 8 minutes after takeoff of Lockheed, the crew reported a fire in the third engine and requested an emergency landing on Nantucket Island in Atlantic Ocean... However, the plane did not reach the runway, but fell into the water a few kilometers from the island. 15 people were killed.
1968 year
Unidentified conscript was the only survivor of the IL-18 crash in the Chunsky district of the Irkutsk region on February 29, 1968. The plane of flight 15 of Aeroflot for an unknown reason fell from a height of about 8000 meters. At an altitude of 1000 m, due to extreme loads, the Il-18 collapsed. As a result of the disaster, 83 people died.
1970 year
During a runway run in Cuzco, Peru, on August 9, 1970, LANSA's Lockheed L-188 Electra (Flight 502) stalled and its third engine caught fire. Lockheed did take off, and the pilots requested an emergency landing. During the turn, the plane banked, 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. Huang Loo(Juan Loo).
1971 year
June 6, 1971 pilot, lieutenant Christopher Schiess(Christopher E. Schiess) was the only survivor of the collision between a US Navy aircraft and Hughes Airwest Civil Flight 706. 50 people died.
Photo: Juliana Köpke at the crash site
Peru, Arequipa, December 24, 1971, the tragedy of LANSA Flight 508, which became the basis for the movie "Miracles Still Happen". The Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft entered a zone of severe turbulence a few minutes after takeoff. After 20 minutes of flight, the Lockheed was struck by lightning. The plane began to collapse in the air at an altitude of 3.2 kilometers and fell deep into the rainforest. Lone surviving passenger with a fractured collarbone Juliana Kepke(Juliane Koepcke) in 9 days independently went out to people.
1972
Vesna Vulovic(Vesna Vulović), a 22-year-old flight attendant, lone survivor of the DC-9-30 plane crash (flight JAT 367) on January 26, 1972, near the village of Serbska 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 this time on the ground (her skull, legs and three vertebrae were injured).
Vesna Vulovic is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as a free fall survivor without a parachute from a record height of 10,160 meters (33,316 feet).
1973 year
July 22, 1973, near the city of Papeete in Tahiti fell into Boeing ocean 707-321B of Pan Am Flight 816. During takeoff, the plane climbed to a height of 100 meters, and then fell to the left and crashed into the water. 78 people died - all except Neela Campbell(Neil James Campbell). Boeing 707 sank to a depth of about 700 meters, flight recorders were not found, the causes of the crash were not established.
In the photo: the bow of the crashed Tu-134A
1979 year
March 22, USSR, Liepaja. Due to an error of the crew and the ATC, which violated the alignment of the aircraft, there was a catastrophe of the Tu-134A cargo flight of the Aeroflot company. Four people died, surviving crew member - flight mechanic Yuri Dmitrievich Stepanov, who, unlike his comrades, was wearing his seatbelt on 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 caught on trees and crashed. 17 people were killed, only a 16-year-old passenger remained alive from those on board the DHC John McCafferty(John McCafferty).
1981
Savitskaya Larisa Vladimirovna, the only survivor of the An-24 plane crash (Aeroflot flight 811), which took place on August 24, 1981 near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. A young 20-year-old girl was in the tail and survived after a collision of aircraft in the air: An-24 collided with a Tu-16 bomber at an altitude of 5220 m. 37 people were killed.
Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records as a survivor of a fall from a height of more than 5000 meters and received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage (75 rubles in 1981-1982 money).
September 2, 1981, Columbia, city of Pipe. Due to overload, it was unable to gain the required altitude and while making a left turn crashed into a hill the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft of the Taxi Aereo el Venado airline. 21 people killed, only 26-year-old passenger survived Remberto Aparicio(Remberto Aparicio).
1983 year
30 year old Melissa Kelly(Melissa Kelly) is the lone survivor of the April 30, 1983 crash that struck a US Navy Convair CV-340 near Jacksonville, Florida. The crew made the decision to return to the airport of departure when, shortly after takeoff, one of the aircraft's engines caught fire, but the Convair CV-340 fell into the water 125 meters before the start of the runway. 14 people were killed.
In the photo: Tu-154 of Aeroflot company
On December 23, 1984, 110 people died in the Tu-154 crash on the Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk flight. Sole survivor name in the crash of Aeroflot Flight 3519 of a 27-year-old man, not named.
1985 year
Shortly after the Lockheed L-188A Electra took off from the Reno airfield in Nevada, the aircraft began to vibrate violently due to the opening of the wing hatch. The crew of Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 made a mistake: believing that the detonation was caused by a malfunction of the turbines, the pilots reduced the thrust of the engines, the plane lost speed and crashed in the campground. Sole surviving passenger, 17-year-old George Lamson(George Lamson), was thrown from the fuselage along with the seat seconds before the explosion, which killed 70 people.
As we can see, planes are getting larger over the years, and accordingly the number of passengers is increasing ...
1987 year
Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, January 3, 1987. A Boeing 707, Varig Flight 797, crashed while entering emergency landing after engine failure. 50 people died, only one passenger survived, professor Neuba Yessoch(Neuba Yessoh).
On August 16, 1987, during takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Michigan, the crew did not deploy the flaps and slats of Northwest Airlines Flight 255. As a result, the airliner McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 lost speed and crashed outside the runway. The reason for the malfunction of the flight readiness warning system was the deliberate disconnection of the electrical fuse by an unknown person. In this disaster, 156 people died (two on earth), the only survivor is 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, who were returning to Lima, were killed. During a re-landing (due to a chassis malfunction) at George Chavez International Airport, the Peruvian Fokker F27-400M aircraft lowered its altitude too early, caught the ocean surface with its right wing, overturned and collapsed. The victims of the plane crash in Peru were 42 people. Sole Survivor - Lieutenant Edilberto Villar(Edilberto Villar), who was listed as a member of the crew, but strangely his role in the crew was not established.
1988 year
Unknown man was the only survivor of the plane crash on December 11, 1988, which occurred near Leninakan with the Il-76M aircraft of the USSR Air Force. This lucky guy was in the cockpit of a KamAZ truck loaded onto the plane when it crashed into a mountain while approaching. 77 people died.
1990 year
Turkmen USSR, Ashgabat region, near Bakhardok, November 19, 1990. Due to a manufacturing defect, the main gearbox of the Mi-8T main rotor, board of the 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 glazing of the cockpit in an explosion, the remaining 15 people on board were killed.
In the photo: Bambang Sumadi, an Indonesian survivor of the plane crash
1991 year
A Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, an A-1324 of the Indonesian Air Force, was returning from Armed Forces Day celebrations on October 5, 1991. On board were pilots who took part in official events. For unknown (or hidden) reasons, the plane lost control and crashed into the Ministry of Labor training center near Halim Perdanakusuma airport, Jakarta city. As a result of the Lockheed crash, 135 people died (2 on the ground), survived - Bambang Sumadi(Bambang Sumadi).
1992 year
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 flew from Khartoum to Tripoli, got caught in a sandstorm and fell in the desert. At least four people were killed.
Photo: Annette Herfkens, a passenger on Vietnamese flight 474
On November 14, 1992, while approaching in a tropical storm, the Vietnam Airlines Yak-40 aircraft (Flight 474) deviated from the course towards Cam Ranh International Airport and crashed into the top of the mountain ridge. All crew members and passengers (30 people) died, except for the 31-year-old Annette Herfkens(Annette Herfkens). It took rescuers 8 days to reach the plane wreckage.
In the photo: Erica Delgado with relatives
1995 year
Nine year old Erica Delgado(Erika Delgado), young passenger on Flight 256 Colombian international airlines, became the sole survivor of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 plane crash 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, only a 27-year-old survived Ulziyabayar Sanjaa(English Ulziibayar Sanjaa).
1997 year
Navigator Sergey Petrov, 37 years old, survived a plane crash near Sharjah airport, UAE. On that day, December 15, 1997, the Tu-154, flight 3183 of the Tajik airlines, during landing due to a pilot error, dropped below the required altitude, lost speed and fell 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
Yousef Gillali(Eng. Youcef Djillali), 28 years old, citizen of Algeria, soldier. March 6, 2003 flew from Tamanrasset to Gardaya (Algeria). An Algerian Airlines Boeing 737-200 (Air Algérie Flight 6289) crashed in the Sahara Desert due to engine failure during takeoff. Onboard there were 97 passengers and 6 crew members, all but one were killed.
Mohamed el-Fateh Osman(English Mohammed el-Fateh Osman), 3 years old, citizen of Sudan. July 8, 2003 flew with my mother from Port Sudan to Khartoum. A Boeing 737-200 aircraft (tail number ST-AFK) of Sudan Airlines (flight 139) crashed in the Red Sea before reaching Khartoum airport. Onboard there were 117 passengers and crew members, 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 with his wife after the disaster
2006 year
A premature drop in altitude and an error in spatial orientation led to a plane crash on January 19, 2006, which occurred in Pristina, Serbia, on board 5605 of the Slovak Air Force. As a result of the fall of the An-24 plane, 42 people were killed. Sole Survivor - Lieutenant Martin Farkas(Martin Farkaš), a former passenger on the plane.
On August 27, 2006, while taking off from the airport of Lexington, Kentucky, Delta Connection pilots confused the runway number and began takeoff along a shorter runway. As a result, the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (flight 5191) did not have enough take-off run, it rolled out of the runway, rammed an iron fence, crashed into trees, collapsed and caught fire. The accident claimed the lives of 49 people. Sole survivor - 44-year-old co-pilot James Polekhinke(James Polehinke).
In the photo: former pilot James Polekhinke with his wife
2007 year
Iraq, city of Balad, 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).
Photo: Rescuers evacuate Francesca Lewis, which took about 4 hours, to a location accessible to a helicopter
12 year old Francesca Lewis(Francesca Lewis) is the lone survivor of the plane crash of a Cessna 172 plane that crashed into the slope 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 discovered two days after the fall of the Cessna in a remote mountainous area.
2008 year
In conditions of poor visibility on October 8, 2008 in the area of the airport. Tenzinga and Hillary in Lukla, Nepal, the pilot went off course and a Yeti Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (Flight 103) crashed into the mountain. As a result of the disaster, the lives of 18 people were cut short. Sole survivor - crew commander Surendra Kunwar(English Surendra Kunwar).
year 2009
Canada, Newfoundland Island, March 12. A Sikorsky S-92 helicopter serving the Khybernia oil field fell into the ocean while flying to an oil platform. Only 28-year-old survived Robert Decker(Robert Decker) 17 people killed.
In the photo: Bahia Bakari in a hospital bed in July 2009
Bahia Bakari(English Bahia Bakari), 14 years old, French citizen. June 30, 2009 flew with her mother from Marseille to the Comoros. Airbus A-310-300 Yemeni Airlines (flight IY 626) crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros. There were 153 passengers on board, all but the teenage girl were killed. Bahia did not receive any physical injuries in the accident, only suffered from hypothermia after being in the water for 14 hours. In 2010, she published her autobiography The Survivor.
Photo: 9-year-old Ruben van Assou in the hospital after surgery
2010 year
Ruben van Assou(Ruben van Assouw), 9 years old, Dutch citizen. May 12, 2010 flew with his parents from Johannesburg to Tripoli. An Airbus A330-200 of the Libyan company Afriqiyah Airways (flight 771) crashed on the approach to Tripoli airport due to pilot error. Onboard there were 93 passengers and 11 crew members, all but one were killed. The child was found awake among the rubble. The boy has broken legs, but his vital signs are normal.
On August 25, 2010, when approaching the Bandundu airfield in DR Congo, a 9Q-CCN board of Filair, the Let L-420UVP plane, 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
On April 4, in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Georgian pilot, Georgian Airways, who was carrying cargo and passengers ordered by the UN, lost control of the Bombardier CRJ 100 in adverse weather conditions. As a result of the impact on the DGG, the plane split into two parts and caught fire. 32 people died. Sole survivor - Francis Muamba(Francis Mwamba).
Alexander Sizov, 42 years old, an engineer for aviation and radio technical maintenance of 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 rolled off the runway, did not have time to gain altitude, collided with a radio beacon, crashed into the ground and exploded. Killed 44 people, including the players of the hockey club "Lokomotiv".
In the photo: Yak-42 five years before the disaster
year 2014
On February 11, 2014, a Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules military transport plane crashed while flying from Tamanrasset to Constantina, the Algerian province of Umm al-Bawaki. Before reaching its destination, the plane crashed in a mountainous area, killing 77 people. Escaped 21-year-old Nimer Jellul(English Nimer Djelloul).
2015 year
The plane An-2 of the Kazakhmys company, making a flight 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.
Based on materials from Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia
Aircraft Passenger Safety
Specialists from the University of Greenwich (London) conducted a study in 2008, the data for which was taken from an analysis of the circumstances of the death of 105 people in plane crashes. Also, almost 2 thousand people who survived the plane crash were interviewed.
The results showed that the safest seats are at the aisle, no more than five rows from the emergency exit.
According to a number of experts, the seats of flight attendants are safer than passenger seats, since they are located backwards. It was even proposed to deploy the passenger seats, but the innovation was not implemented due to the unwillingness of passengers to fly backwards. In addition, when the aircraft is flying in cruise mode with a positive angle of attack, passengers sitting facing the flight will "crawl" out of their seats, since in this position of the aircraft the seat cushion is at a negative angle to the horizon.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Is it very typical for Russian aircraft to fall from Ukrainian missiles? Have you counted a lot?
The mention of the Ukrainian missile after such events sounds blasphemy:
1 Malaysian Boeing knocked down by a beech (the report of the Dutch prosecutor's office proves this irrefutably)
2 On the night of June 14, 2014, a military transport aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Il-76 was shot down by a shot from an anti-aircraft missile system and a long burst from a large-caliber machine gun while approaching an airfield in Luhansk. On board the Il-76 were 40 Ukrainian servicemen and 9 crew members. They all died. This feat was noted Wagnerians, at that time located in Ukraine. The Ukrainian special service has documentary information that part of the "Wagnerites" fired at Lugansk airport almost every day in the summer of 2014.
And if you remember the history?
On September 1, 1983, a tragedy occurred in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, which some Russian sources still shamefully refer to as an "incident": a Soviet air defense fighter shot down a South Korean civilian airliner that violated the USSR air border. All 269 people on board, including 23 children, were killed.
Crash of Boeing 707 at Karel ui
Everyone is now hearing about the crash of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass. Less known, but nevertheless known about her, the story of how a South Korean Boeing was shot down over a Soviet the Far East September 1, 1983 It turns out that this is not the first South Korean Boeing shot down over The Soviet Union... There was one more.
April 20, 1978 in the area Kola Peninsula over the territory of the USSR, another South Korean Boeing 707 was shot down, flying on the route Paris - Anchorage - Seoul
On April 20, 1978, in the area of the Kola Peninsula, a passenger Boeing-707-321B (HL7429) of Korean Air Lines (KAL), performing flight 902 - Paris-Anchorage-Seoul, crossed the border of the USSR.
The Korean Boeing continued to fly to Severomorsk. Dmitry Tsarkov, who held the post of commander of the 21st Air Defense Corps of the USSR in 1978, reports to Vladimir Dmitriev, who at that time was the commander of the 10th Air Defense Army of the USSR, that the air defense is ready to shoot down the intruder. Dmitriev did not give permission, saying that we could shoot down our plane, the exact belonging of the plane was not yet clear. The intruder walked at a speed of 15 kilometers per minute (900 km / h). At this time, the intruder crossed the border of the USSR. A flight of fighters was raised into the sky.
The aircraft was detected by Soviet air defense radars and was initially identified as a Boeing 747. An anti-aircraft missile system was put on alert. A Su-15TM ("Flegon-F") fighter under the control of Captain A. Bosov was sent to intercept.
According to the testimony of the liner captain Kim Chang Ki, the interceptor approached his plane from the right side (and not from the left, as required by the rules of the international organization civil aviation- ICAO). The captain claims to have reduced speed and turned on navigation lights to indicate readiness to follow the Soviet fighter for landing. Captain Kim Chang Ki's attempts to contact the interceptor pilot on 121.5 were detected by an air traffic control tower in Rovaniemi, Finland. According to the official statement of the Soviet side, the liner evaded the requirement to land. When the pilot of the interceptor reported that the intruder was actually not the 747th, but the 707th Boeing, the command decided that it was an RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft (produced on the basis of the Boeing-707 airliner) and gave the order to destroy goals.
According to the American radio intercept, the interceptor pilot for several minutes tried to convince the command to cancel the order, as he saw the emblem of the KAL airline on the liner and inscriptions in hieroglyphs, however, after confirming the order, he fired two P-60 missiles at the liner. The first of them missed the target, and the second exploded, tearing off part of the left wing, causing the plane to depressurize and killing two passengers with shrapnel.
Due to the depressurization of the cabin, the liner began an emergency descent and disappeared from the radar screens of the Soviet air defense system. The interceptor pilot also lost a damaged liner in the clouds.
Over the next hour, emergency flight 902 flew at low altitude across the entire Kola Peninsula, looking for a place for an emergency landing and, after several unsuccessful attempts, landed in the gathering twilight on the ice of Lake Korpiyarvi, already in Karelia. Throughout this time, the air defense did not have any information about the fate and location of the aircraft.
The USSR refused to cooperate in the investigation of this incident with international experts and did not provide data from the black boxes seized from the plane. The plane itself was disassembled and taken out in parts. The Korean airline abandoned it in order not to pay for the evacuation of the plane. 95 passengers were taken to Kem, and then to Murmansk airport. On April 23, 1978, they were transferred to representatives of the US Consulate General in Leningrad and Pan-American Airlines and sent to Helsinki. Su-15 pilot Captain A. Bosov was awarded the Order of the Red Star for completing a combat mission.
The Boeing commander, the highest-class pilot Lee Chang Hugh, a former military pilot, managed to land a little-controlled 200-ton aircraft on a frozen lake. This saved the lives of the rest of the passengers. The Boeing commander was later interrogated. He said that he had fought as a fighter pilot back in Vietnam. He graduated from the war with the rank of colonel. Then he worked for 10 years in a civilian airline, and the experience of flights on the route of flight 902 is also 10 years. He has been flying with this crew for 7 years. The last flight before this flight on this route was a week ago. The weather was good during the flight. When asked how you could go so off course, the commander replied that the navigation equipment allegedly failed.
Many years later, a flight map of Flight 902 was published based on declassified black box data, showing that the plane, passing the Amsterdam-Anchorage section, began a smooth wide right turn shortly after reaching Iceland. This turn was too smooth to be done manually, and the explanation can only be a malfunction of the navigation equipment.
Where to aim? Maggie crashed onto the station's stone floor, but his fall was slowed down when he broke through the glass roof the moment before. It hurts, but it is salutary. A haystack will do, too. Some lucky ones survived, ending up in a dense bush. Thicket is also good, although you can run into some branch. Snow? Just perfect. Swamp? A soft, vegetated bog is the most desirable option. Hamilton recounts an incident when a skydiver with an unopened parachute landed directly on high-voltage wires. The wires sprung and threw him up, keeping him alive. The most dangerous surface is water. Like concrete, it is practically incompressible. The result of falling on the ocean surface will be about the same as falling on the sidewalk. The only difference is that the asphalt, alas! - will not open beneath you to absorb the shattered body forever.
Without losing sight of your intended goal, take care of your body position. To slow down your fall, act like a skydiver on a skydive. Spread your legs and arms wider, throw your head back higher, straighten your shoulders, and by yourself you will turn your chest to the ground. Your drag will increase immediately, and there will be room for maneuver. The main thing is not to relax. In your, frankly, predicament, the question of how to prepare for a meeting with the ground remains, unfortunately, not fully resolved. An article on this topic was published in the 1942 journal War Medicine. It said: "In trying to avoid injury, load distribution and compensation play a big role." Hence the recommendation - you need to fall flat. On the other hand, the 1963 report published Federal agency Aviation Administration (FAA), claims that the classic grouping adopted among skydivers will be optimal for saving life: legs together, knees higher, shins pressed to thighs. The same source noted that training in sports such as wrestling or acrobatics greatly contributes to survival in a disaster. When falling on hard surfaces, it would be especially useful to have some skills in martial arts.
Japanese skydiver Yasuhiro Kubo trains like this: he throws his parachute out of the plane, and then jumps out himself. By tightening the process to the limit, he catches up with his equipment, puts on and then pulls the ring. In 2000, Kubo jumped at an altitude of 3 km and spent 50 seconds in free fall until he caught up with his backpack with his parachute. All of these useful skills can be practiced in a safer environment, for example, in free fall simulators - vertical wind tunnels. However, simulators will not allow you to work out the most crucial stage - a meeting with the ground.
If a water surface awaits you below, prepare for quick and decisive action. According to the surviving amateurs of jumping from high bridges, we can conclude that the optimal entry into the water would be a "soldier", that is, feet first. Then you will have at least some chance of getting to the surface alive.
On the other hand, the famous cliff divers who hone their skills near Acapulco believe that it is better to enter the water head first. At the same time, they put their hands with intertwined fingers in front of the head, protecting it from impact. You can choose any of these poses, but try to maintain the parachuting position until the very last second. Then, above the water itself, if you choose to dive like a soldier, we strongly recommend that you strain your buttocks with all your might. Explaining why would not be very decent, but you can probably guess it yourself.
Whatever surface is waiting for you below, in no case land on your head. Researchers from the Institute for Highway Safety have concluded that head injury is the leading cause of death in these situations. If you are still being carried head first, it is better to land on your face. It is safer than hitting the back of the head or the top of the skull.
07:02:19 Height 300 meters
If, having fallen out of the plane, you started reading this article, then by now you have come just to these lines. You already have the initial course, and now it's time to pull yourself together and focus on the task before you. However, here is some additional information.
Statistics show that in the event of a disaster, it is more profitable to be a crew member or a child, and if there is a choice, it is better to crash in a military plane. Over the past 40 years, at least 12 plane crashes have been recorded, when only one person survived. On this list, four were crew members and seven were passengers under the age of 18. The survivors include Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, a two-year-old child who survived the crash of a Boeing in Sudan in 2003 after landing in the wreckage. Last June, when Yemenia Airways crashed near the Comoros, only 14-year-old Bahia Bakari survived.
The survival of the crew members can be associated with more reliable passive safety systems, but why children are more often left alive is not yet clear. The FAA studies show that children, especially those under the age of four, have more flexible bones, more relaxed muscles and a higher percentage of subcutaneous fat, which effectively protects internal organs. People of small stature - if their head does not protrude from the backs of aircraft seats - are well protected from flying debris. With a low body weight, the steady-state falling speed will also be lower, and a smaller frontal section reduces the chance of hitting when landing on any sharp object.
07:02:25 Height 0 meters
So, we have arrived. Hit. Are you still alive? And what are your actions? If you escaped with minor injuries, you can get up and smoke, as did the British Nicholas Alkemeid, the rear gunner, who in 1944, after falling from a six-kilometer height, landed in a snow-covered thicket. If it's no joke, then there is still a lot of trouble ahead.
Let us recall the case of Juliana Kopke. In 1971, on Christmas Eve, she flew in a Lockheed Electra. The liner exploded somewhere over the Amazon. The 17-year-old German woman regained consciousness the next morning under the canopy of the jungle. She was strapped into her seat, and there were piles of Christmas gifts lying around. Wounded, all alone, she forced herself not to think about her dead mother. Instead, she focused on the advice of her biologist father: "Once lost in the jungle, you will go out to the people, following the flow of water." Kopke walked along forest streams, which gradually merged into rivers. She walked around crocodiles and beat in shallow water with a stick to scare away the stingrays. Somewhere, having stumbled, she lost her shoe, only a torn mini-skirt remained from her clothes. She had only a bag of sweets to eat, and she had to drink dark, dirty water. She ignored the broken collarbone and the inflamed open wounds.
Today we decided to remember incredible cases, a list of plane crashes with multi-seat aircraft, as a result of which, of all those on board, only one person remained alive.
On June 14, 1943, a plane carrying American soldiers on vacation crashed in Australia. In conditions of poor visibility due to fog, the plane touched the treetops and crashed. Only Foy Kenneth Roberts survived (in total there were 41 soldiers on board ), who received severe craniocerebral trauma. Doctors managed to save Roberts and he lived until 2004. However, as a result of his injuries, he forgot everything about the accident and lost the ability to speak.
Julianne Dealer Kopke survived a plane crash after falling from a height of 3 km
On December 23, 1971, 500 kilometers from the capital of Peru, Lima, as a result of falling into a vast thunderstorm area, a passenger plane actually collapsed in the air at an altitude of more than three kilometers.
“Suddenly an amazing silence reigned around me. The plane disappeared. I must have been unconscious and then came to my senses. I flew, spinning in the air, and could see the forest approaching rapidly below me "
Seventeen-year-old girl Julianne Dealer Kopke became the only survivor - she was fastened with a belt to a row of chairs and fell into the dense jungle. In the fall, she broke her collarbone, injured her arm and received a moderate head injury.For 9 days Juliana wandered through the jungle, trying not to leave the stream, believing that sooner or later he would lead her to civilization. Also, the stream gave the girl water. Nine days later, Juliana found a canoe and a hiding place in which she hid and waited. Soon she was found in this shelter by lumberjacks.
On January 26, 1972, Croatian terrorists blew up a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 passenger plane belonging to JAT Yugoslav Airlines over the Czech town of Serbska Kamenice. The board followed from Copenhagen to Zagreb, there were 28 people on board. The bomb planted in luggage compartment, detonated at an altitude of 10160 m. 27 passengers and crew members died, but the 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovich survived, having fallen from an altitude of more than 10 km.
Vesna Vulovic
Vesna Vulovic after a plane crash fell from a height of 10160 m and survived
When falling from a height of 10160 meters (the case is a record for survivors of a fall from great height ) received severe injuries to the spine and skull, was unconscious when she was discovered. After that, she was in a coma for almost a month, the total duration of treatment was about one and a half years. After recovery, she was transferred to ground work in the airline, in Yugoslavia was considered a folk heroine.
Larisa Savitskaya
On August 24, 1981, passenger and military aircraft collided over the territory of the USSR. The only survivor was the passenger Larisa Savitskaya, who ended up in the wreckage of the plane, where there were chairs in which she took refuge. When falling from a height of more than five kilometers, Savitskaya received serious spinal injuries, craniocerebral trauma, and lost almost all of her teeth. For three days, she waited for rescuers, as the wreckage fell in the taiga. Unlike Vesna, Vulovich did not receive much support from the state: the fact of the disaster was hiding, individual injuries she received did not allow her to register a disability and receive support from the state, she was paid a lump sum of 75 rubles as a survivor of the plane crash.
Larisa Savitskaya spent three days in the taiga after the plane crash
On January 13, 1995, an airplane crashed in Colombia, making an emergency landing in a swampy area. The landing was unsuccessful, when it hit the ground, the ship fell apart and exploded. Only nine-year-old girl Erica Delgado survived, whom her mother threw from the plane at the moment when it began to fall apart. Erica fell into a pile of seaweed, but could not get out. According to her recollections, one of local residents tore off her gold necklace and disappeared, ignoring requests for help ( the bodies of the victims were also robbed). After a while, the girl was found by her cries for help and was pulled out of the swamp by a local farmer.
On August 27, 2006 in Kentucky, USA, a passenger plane crashed during takeoff. The crash was caused by the captain's mistaken choice runway, the length of which was too short for this type of aircraft, in the end only the co-pilot, James Polehink, survived, who, as a result of numerous injuries ( severe concussion, many fractures, rib-pierced lung) lost his memory and did not remember anything about the plane crash.
4-year-old Cecilia Xichan managed to survive a plane crash in 1989
On August 16, 1989, a regular flight, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 of Northwest Airlines, took off from Detroit airport. There were 157 people on board, including a 4-year-old girl Cecilia Sichan. Her parents and her six-year-old brother flew with her.
The liner began to swing already on takeoff, it touched the lighting mast with its left wing, part of the wing came off and caught fire. Then the plane tilted to the right, and another wing punctured the roof of the car rental office. The plane crashed onto the highway, falling apart, and burst into flames. The debris and bodies of the victims were scattered over an area of over half a mile.
Firefighter John Tied, who worked at the crash site, heard a small squeak and saw a children's pen among the wreckage. A 4-year-old girl with a skull fracture, a broken leg and collarbone, and third-degree burns was the only survivor of the disaster. She underwent four skin grafts but managed to fully recover.
Cecilia was raised by her aunt and uncle. When the girl grew up, she got a tattoo on her wrist in the form of an airplane, in memory of that day.
Bahia Bakari
On June 30, 2009, off the coast of the Comoros, a Yemeni airline crashed into the ocean. Of the 153 passengers, only thirteen-year-old Baia Bakari, a Frenchwoman, who flew to the Comoros from Marseille with her mother, survived. When the girl was thrown from the plane in a collision with water, she received multiple bruises and broke her collarbone. She managed to get out of the water onto one of the wreckage of the plane, on which she was for 14 hours, until she was discovered by the crew of a passing ship, who took the girl, who suffered primarily from hypothermia, to the hospital.
In January 2010, Bakari published her autobiography "The Survivor" with journalist Omar Genduz... In May of the same year, the newspaperAol newspublished information that Steven Spielberg Bakari offered to purchase the rights to film her book, but she refused.
Aviation accidents appeared along with aeronautics, but only by the 40s of the 20th century, these cases began to be recorded. The rating includes people who survived the plane crashes. 10 cases were considered when only one person survived from all passengers.
10.Julianne Diller Koepke(December 24, 1971) - the only seventeen-year-old girl who survived the plane crash . On that terrible night, she was aboard a Peruvian airline with her parents. A thunderstorm started and lightning struck the plane. The air machine began to fall apart at an altitude of 3200 meters and fell into the rainforest. The debris on which Julianne's chair had been mounted had fallen off in mid-air. He flew down through the raging elements and rotated at a breakneck speed in a circle. The fragment, together with Julianne, landed on the treetops, which saved the girl. She had a broken collarbone and numerous wounds. The survivor found the strength to get up and go to seek help. Stumbling across a stream in the jungle, she went downstream. On the tenth day, Julianne went out to the settlement. The story of the heroic girl formed the basis of several feature films.
9.Vesna Vulovic(January 26, 1972) - 22-year-old flight attendant who survived a plane crash and got into the Guinness Book for falling from a height of 10 kilometers without a parachute. At the moment when the airliner flew over Czechoslovakia at an altitude of 10,160 meters, an explosion occurred on the ship. The Yugoslavian stewardess, by the will of fate, was on board that day - she replaced her colleague. The tree branches the girl fell on softened the blow. Vulovich did not come to her senses for almost a month and lay in a hospital bed for a year and a half. Despite this, the forced record holder was able to return to normal life and continued to work in aviation, but only in ground service.
8.Larisa Savitskaya - plane crash survivor twenty-year-old girl (24 August 1981). Together with her husband, a young woman was returning home from honeymoon trip... Above the city of Zavitinsk, at an altitude of 5220 meters, a bomber crashed into their AN-24 plane. All people in two planes were killed (37 people). The girl was in the tail section of the broken AN-24. From a five thousandth height, Larissa fell on a large debris. The fall lasted 8 minutes. A piece of the airliner, together with the victim, fell onto birch plantations, which softened the force of the impact. Larisa, who survived the plane crash, spent two nights alone in the forest. Despite a concussion, numerous abrasions and injuries, she could move independently. Graves were prepared for all passengers, including for Larisa. The search engines were taken aback to see her alive. The woman got into the Guinness Book of Records twice: as a person who was the only survivor of a plane crash and as a passenger who received the minimum compensation - 75 rubles.
7.George Lamson ( January 21, 1985) - the only survivor of a plane crash in the United States, Nevada. A seventeen-year-old guy was returning with his father on a Lockheed L-188 Electra plane with ski resort... Suddenly, the aircraft was heavily heeled on one side and began to fall. George pressed his knees to his chest as the plane hit the ground. Together with the seat, it was carried out of the fuselage an instant before the explosion. It was this factor that saved the life of the young man. The cause of the tragedy, in which 70 people died, was a piloting error in assessing the situation, as a result of which Lockheed L-188 Electra lost speed and fell.
6.Cecilia Xichan(August 16, 1989) is a four-year-old girl who survived a plane crash in Detroit that killed 154 people. The plane never managed to gain altitude. Even on takeoff, he hooked his wing on the lighting tower, which caused it to fall off and catch fire. The liner veered to the right, and with the second wing, he broke through the roof of the building. The aircraft simply fell to pieces, which were scattered over almost a kilometer area. Sessily was found under the rubble by a fireman. After numerous fractures and burns, the girl was able to recover. Cecilia's parents fell victim to the same tragedy. Now the girl is not afraid to fly, believing that "the projectile does not hit the same place twice."
5. Nine year old Erica Delgado ( January 11, 1995) was on the list of people who were the only survivors of plane crashes thanks to her mother. She and her family were on a flight from Bogota to Cartagena, Colombia. The cause of the terrible disaster was a malfunction of the ship's instruments, which crashed to the ground during the landing approach. At the moment of the fall, the mother pushed the child out of the crumbling liner, and the girl fell into a lake overgrown with algae. A local farmer saved her after hearing cries for help. Erica escaped with a broken arm, the rest of the passengers and crew members (52 people) were killed.
4.Yousef Gillali(March 6, 2003) - the only survivor of the plane crash that occurred in the city of Tamanrasset (Algeria). The Boeing 737-200 aircraft crashed during takeoff due to engine failure. While in mid-air due to the engine fire, the ship began to rapidly lose speed. The Boeing crashed in rocky terrain near the airfield and was blown apart. Of the 104 crew members, only twenty-eight-year-old soldier Gillali managed to escape. The victim received many fractures and was in a coma. But a day later, the young man came to his senses, and his life was out of danger.
3. On Sunday morning (August 27, 2006), a fire broke out on board an aircraft on a Lexington-Atlanta flight in Kentucky. The car crashed a kilometer from the airport. All passengers and crew members (49 people) were killed. The fire was so intense that it was impossible to identify the bodies. Only the second forty-four-year-old pilot James Polekhinke managed to escape. Firefighters pulled him out of the cockpit burning. The cause of the disaster was the use of the shorter runway by the pilots. As a result of this, the air machine, having rammed the iron fence and crashed into a tree, collapsed and caught fire.
2. Thirteen year old Bahia Bakari- the only surviving passenger on a flight from Paris to Comoros (June 30, 2009). A few minutes before landing, the aircraft began to fall rapidly and crashed into the water. Indian Ocean... The girl cannot describe the circumstances of the incident, since she was asleep. Presumably she was thrown through the window. Bahia waited 14 hours for help from rescuers, drifting in the open ocean on the wreck of the ship that did not sink. So she was the only survivor of 153 people.
1. Flight engineer Alexander Sizov - survivor of the plane crash that happened on September 7, 2011 near Yaroslavl. On that fateful day, the Yak-42 aircraft was supposed to deliver the Lokomotiv hockey players to the match in the city of Minsk. Having passed the entire runway, the plane began to rise from the ground, falling sharply onto the left wing. After that, the car collapsed, scattering into parts, which were thrown several hundred meters in the vicinity. Alexander came to himself only when he found himself in a river burning with kerosene. Despite numerous fractures and subsequent surgeries, the fifty-two-year-old passenger survived. The cause of the tragedy that happened on board the Yak-42 was a crew error during the takeoff of the aircraft.
What year is the tragedy of September 11
Battle of Donetsk Airport
Fairy Riga for the new year
Cape Formentor, Majorca, Spain - beach, hotel and photos
Thailand by early booking