List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents explained

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.

History

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.

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.^{[2] [3]}

Notable sole survivors

• Vesna Vulović. On 26 January 1972, the 27 year old Serbian flight attendant onboard JAT Flight 367 survived a fall from a height of 10,160 meters (33,316 feet) as the aircraft exploded above Czechoslovakia. She is the record holder on the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall survived without a parachute.
• Larisa Savitskaya. On August 28 1981, the 20 year old was a passenger onboard Aeroflot Flight 811 when it collided mid-air with a Tupolev Tu-16K strategic bomber over Amur Oblast. She survived the 5,220 (17,130 ft) meter fall, and was rescued 3 days after the incident.
• Juliane Koepcke. On 24 December 1971, as LANSA Flight 508 went down in bad weather, the 17 year old survived a 3,048 meter (10,000 ft) fall, and spent eleven days alone navigating through the Amazon Rainforest before being rescued.
• Annette Herfkens. On 14 November 1992, as Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed, the 31 year old spent eight days in the Vietnamese Jungle by herself awaiting rescue.
• Huang Yu (Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù). On 17 July 1948, in what was the first recorded hijacking of a commercial aircraft in civil aviation history, he was one of four who attempted to hijack the Cathay Pacific aircraft Miss Macao, but ended up crashing the aircraft into the water instead, the 25 year old controversially surviving the ordeal.

List

scope=col style="width: 108px;"	Date	scope=col	Sole survivor (if known)	scope =col	Nationality	scope=col	Age	scope=	Gender	scope=col		scope=col	Operator	scope=col	Flight / information	scope=col	Fatalities	Notes	Source
17 March 1929	Lou Foote		34	Male	C	Colonial Western Airlines	Newark crash	14		^[4]
22 August 1930	Vojtěch Kraus		30	Male	P	ČSA Československé Aerolinie	Jihlava crash	12		^[5] ^[6]
31 December 1935	Vernon Gorry Wilson		33	Male	C	Imperial Airways	Nile crash near Alexandria	12		^[7]
5 September 1936	Linda McDonald		17	Female		Skyway	Skyway sightseeing plane	9		^[8]
24 September 1936					C	Ala Littoria	CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi	9		^[9]
17 November 1939					C	Spanish Air Force	Cap Juby Ju 52 ditching	10		^[10]
9 April 1940	Ogwyn George		21	Male	C	RAF	Sylling crash	9		^[11] ^[12]
30 October 1941	Clarence Bates		41	Male		Northwest Airlines	Northwest Airlines Flight 5	14	Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later.	^[13]
25 August 1942	Sgt Andrew Jack		20	Male	C	Royal Air Force	Dunbeath Air Crash	15		^[14]
22 January 1943	John Alfred Howard		26	Male	P	Pan American-Grace Airways	Flight 9	14		^[15]
14 June 1943	Foye Kenneth Roberts		22	Male	P	U.S. Army Air Forces	Bakers Creek air crash	40
5 September 1946	Peter Link		3	Male	P	Trans-Luxury Airlines	California Trans-Luxury Airlines	20		^[16] ^[17]
12 January 1947	William Ellis Keyes, Jr.		25	Male	P	Eastern Airlines	Flight 665	18		^[18]
28 January 1947	Paul Ashton Vick		1	Male	P	China National Aviation Corporation	Hankou crash	25		^[19]
1 February 1947	Eugene Leonard		38	Male	P	Air France	Lisbon mountain crash	15		^[20]
10 March 1948	Tripolina Meo		33	Female	P	Delta Air Lines	Flight 705	12		^[21] ^[22]
15 April 1948	Mark Worst			Male	P	Pan Am	Flight 1–10	30		^[23] ^[24]
12 May 1948	Georges Moutafis			Male	P	Sabena	Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash	31		^[25] ^[26]
17 July 1948	Huang Yu		24	Male	P	Cathay Pacific	Miss Macao	25		^[27]
20 November 1949	Isaac Allal		12	Male	P	Aero Holland	Hurum air disaster	34		^[28] ^[29]
24 May 1950	Olga Rada		10	Female	P	LANSA	Galeras Douglas C-47	25		^[30] ^[31]
27 July 1950	Sgt. Haru "Harry" Sazaki		31	Male	P	U.S. Air Force	Douglas C-47	25		^[32] ^[33]
17 May 1953	Hazel Cox		21	Female	P	Delta Air Lines		19		^[34]
6 January 1954	P/O P. D. Cliff			Male	P	RAF	Aldbury Valetta accident	16		^[35]
17 March 1957	Nestor Mata		31	Male	P	Philippine Air Force	Cebu Douglas C-47 crash	25		^[36]
26 August 1954			40	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 971	26	Former Soviet Army Colonel	^[37]
1 May 1957	Ernest Taylor			Male	P	Eagle Aviation Limited	Blackbushe Viking accident	34		^[38]
16 January 1959				Male	P	Austral Líneas Aéreas	Flight 205	51		^[39]
30 October 1959	Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley		33	Male	P	Piedmont Airlines	Flight 349	26		^[40] ^[41]
1 December 1959	Louis Matarazzo		35	Male	P	Allegheny Airlines	Flight 371	25		^[42] ^[43]
14 April 1965	Dominique Silliere		22	Female	C	British United Airways	British United Airways Flight 1030X	26	Flight Attendant aboard Flight 1030X.	^[44]
25 April 1967	Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet		29	Male	C	U.S. Air Force	Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation	15		^[45]
29 February 1968	Vassily Andrienko		21	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 15	83		^[46] ^[47]
9 March 1968	Michèle Renard		27	Female	P	Groupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM)	1968 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash	19		^[48] ^[49]
4 May 1970	Capt. George A. Burk		28	Male	P	U.S. Air Force	T-29 Convair	13		^[50]
9 August 1970	Juan Loo		26	Male	C	LANSA	Flight 502	99	First Officer of Flight 502.	^[51]
6 June 1971	Lt. Christopher E. Schiess		24	Male	C	United States Marine Corps	F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706	50		^[52] ^[53]
24 December 1971	Juliane Koepcke		17	Female	P	LANSA	Flight 508	91
26 January 1972	Vesna Vulović		22	Female	C	JAT Yugoslav	Flight 367	27	Flight Attendant aboard Flight 367. Holds world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.
22 July 1973	Neil James Campbell		28	Male	P	Pan Am	Flight 816	78		^[54] ^[55]
15 January 1979	Vika Bendeberya		3	Female	P	Aeroflot	Antonov An-24 crash in Minsk	13		^[56] ^[57]
30 May 1979	John McCafferty		16	Male	P	Downeast Airlines	Flight 46	17		^[58]
24 August 1981	Larisa Savitskaya		20	Female	P	Aeroflot	Flight 811	31	Survived falling from approximately 14,000ft, with the fall lasting 8 minutes. Survived with broken bones and a concussion.	^[59] ^[60]
2 September 1981	Remberto Aparicio		26	Male	P	Taxi Aéreo El Venado	Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa	21		^[61] ^[62]
30 April 1983	AT2 Melissa Kelly		30	Female	P	U.S. Navy	Convair C-131	14
23 December 1984			27	Male	P	Aeroflot	Flight 3519	110		^[63]
21 January 1985	George Lamson Jr.		17	Male	P	Galaxy Airlines	Flight 203	70
22 February 1985	Ouologuem			Male	P	Air Mali	Air Mali (TZ-ACT) crash	51		^[64] ^[65]
3 January 1987	Neuba Yessoh Damase		44	Male	P	VARIG	Flight 797	50		^[66] ^[67]
16 August 1987	Cecelia Cichan		4	Female	P	Northwest Airlines	Flight 255	156
8 December 1987	Lt. Edilberto Villar			Male	C	Peruvian Navy	Alianza Lima air disaster	43	Captain of the flight.
11 December 1988	Fahraddin Balaev			Male	P	Soviet Air Force	1988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash	77		^[68]
5 October 1991	Bambang Sumadi		25	Male	P	Indonesian Air Force	Indonesian Air Force A-1324 crash	135		^[69]
14 November 1992	Annette Herfkens		31	Female	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 474	30		^[70]
26 December 1993					P	Kuban Airlines	Flight GW-5719	35		^[71] ^[72]
11 January 1995	Erika Delgado		9	Female	P	Intercontinental de Aviación		52		^[73]
	Ulziibayar Sanjaa		27	Male	P	MIAT Mongolian Airlines		42		^[74]
7 December 1996	Irianto		40	Male	P	Dirgantara Air Service	Flight 5940	18		^[75]
3 September 1997	Chanayuth Nim-anong		14 months	Male	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 815	65	Youngest sole survivor as of 2024. The final report on this accident states that there were two survivors.	^[76] ^[77]
15 December 1997	Sergei Petrov		37	Male	C	Tajik Air	Flight 3183	85	Navigator of Flight 3183.	^[78]
17 March 2001	Manuel González Pérez		25	Male	P	Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira	Beechcraft 1900 crash in Angola	16		^[79] ^[80]
6 March 2003	Youcef Djillali		28	Male	P	Air Algérie	Flight 6289	102		^[81]
8 July 2003	Mohammed el-Fateh Osman		2	Male	P	Sudan Airways	Flight 139	116		^[82]
19 January 2006	Lt. Martin Farkaš		27	Male	P	Slovak Air Force	Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash	42		^[83] ^[84]
27 August 2006	James M. Polehinke		44	Male	C	Comair	Flight 5191	49	First Officer of Flight 5191.	^[85]
9 January 2007	Abdülkadir Akyüz			Male	P	AerianTur-M	AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crash	34		^[86]
26 August 2007				Male	P	Great Lakes Business Company	Kongolo Antonov An-32B crash	14		^[87]
8 October 2008	Surendra Kunwar			Male	C	Yeti Airlines	Flight 101	18	Captain of Flight 101.	^[88]
12 March 2009	Robert Decker		28	Male	P	Cougar Helicopters	Flight 91	17		^[89]
30 June 2009	Bahia Bakari		12	Female	P	Yemenia	Flight 626	152
12 May 2010	Ruben van Assouw		9	Male	P	Afriqiyah Airways	Flight 771	103		^[90] ^[91] ^[92]
25 August 2010					P	Filair	Bandundu Filair Let L-410 crash	20		^[93]
4 April 2011	Francis Mwamba			Male	P	Georgian Airways / United Nations	United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash	32		^[94] ^[95]
7 September 2011	Alexander Sizov		52	Male	C	Yak-Service	2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash	44	Oldest sole survivor as of 2024.	^[96] ^[97]
11 February 2014	Nimer Djelloul		21	Male	P	Algerian Air Force	Algerian Air Force 7T-WHM crash	77		^[98] ^[99]
18 May 2018	Mailen Diaz Almaguer		19	Female	P	Cubana de Aviación	Flight 972	112		^[100] ^[101] ^[102]
14 January 2019	Farshad Mahdavinejad			Male	C	Saha Airlines	Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash	15	Flight Engineer of the flight.	^[103]
24 November 2019	Muma Emmanuel			Male	P	Busy Bee Congo	2019 Busy Bee Congo crash	26		^[104]
	Viacheslav Zolochevsky		20	Male	P	Ukrainian Air Force	2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash	26		^[105]
2 January 2024	Genki Miyamoto			Male	C	Japan Coast Guard	2024 Haneda Airport runway collision	5	Captain of the flight.
23 January 2024					P	Northwestern Air	Flight 738	6
24 July 2024	Manish Shakya		37	Male	C	Saurya Airlines	2024 Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash	18	Captain of the flight.	^[106] ^[107]

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