Survive in a plane crash ... Indeed, in the entire history civil aviation there were many passengers who managed to avoid tragedies. Some of them overslept or missed the ill-fated flight and, thanks to this, remained alive. But there are also truly miraculous salvations, which are simply impossible to explain. We have compiled a selection of the most incredible stories about the survivors of a plane crash.
1. A terrible plane crash that occurred in Peru in December 1971 claimed the lives of 92 people. A Lockheed L-188A aircraft was struck by lightning while flying over a tropical forest at an altitude of 3 km. The liner fell apart and it seemed that no one was left alive. But 9 days after the tragedy, the surviving passenger of the "death flight" LANSA 508, 17-year-old Juliana Margaret Koepke, was found (in the main photo - note Ed.). The schoolgirl had a broken collarbone, her face was broken, her whole body was bruised. And this - after falling from a height of 3000 meters! She was not found immediately - for more than a week, Juliana survived alone in the wild conditions of the jungle. As Juliana herself later admitted, during the crash of the plane, the row of seats to which she was fastened rotated like a helicopter blade, which slowed down the speed of the fall. She was also lucky that the seats, along with her, collapsed into the dense crowns of trees, which softened the "landing". By the way, the story that happened to Juliana Koepke formed the basis of the Italian film "Miracles Still Happen".
2. Just this very picture "Miracles still happen" was remembered by the An-24 passenger Larisa Savitskaya in 1981. The woman was returning with her husband from honeymoon trip, but, unfortunately, they beautiful story love was interrupted at an altitude of 5 km on Far East. On August 24, 1981, the plane they were flying collided with a Soviet Air Force Tu-16 bomber. Of the 32 people, only 20-year-old Larisa survived. At the time of the disaster, the woman was fast asleep, clinging to her husband. Savitskaya woke up from a strong blow - the plane broke into pieces. She was thrown into the aisle and despite all the horror of what was happening, Larisa managed to firmly grab onto the nearest chair and squeeze into it, like the heroine of the movie “Miracles Still Happen”.
Having already found herself on the ground, Larisa saw a chair in front of her with the body of her dead husband. Next to him, she waited for rescuers at the crash site for exactly two days.
Larisa Savitskaya is twice mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records: as a survivor of a plane crash and as having received the smallest compensation - 75 rubles!
3. The tragedy that occurred in the Andes also formed the basis of a feature film. "Alive" was released in 1993 - 21 years after the infamous story. Uruguay Airlines Flight 571, carrying 45 rugby players and their loved ones, crashed on October 13, 1972. 10 people died immediately, while the rest had to survive 72 days in the mountains without food.
It's scary to imagine, but the unfortunate even had to eat the meat of dead comrades. A few days later, only 16 people survived. The rest died from hunger and cold. The surviving passengers were rescued on December 23, 1972.
4. 1972 was overshadowed by another plane crash - on January 26, terrorists blew up a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-3 passenger plane flying from Copenhagen to Zagreb over the Czech town of Serbska Kamenice. The bomb was planted in luggage compartment and detonated at an altitude of 10,160 m. 27 passengers and crew were killed. Only 22-year-old stewardess Vesna Vulovich escaped. The woman's skull was broken, both legs and three vertebrae were broken, but nevertheless she was alive.
The next 27 days, Vesna was in a coma, and after that, she was under the supervision of doctors in the hospital for another 16 months. The miraculous rescue of Vulovich is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest altitude jump without a parachute.
5. One of the largest disasters in the history of Japanese civil aviation occurred on August 12, 1985. Boeing 747SR-46 of Japan Airlines crashed near Mount Takamagahara, 100 km from Tokyo.
Of the 520 passengers, only four women survived: 24-year-old Japan Airline employee Hiroko Yoshizaki, a 34-year-old passenger on the plane and her 8-year-old daughter Mikiko, and 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami, who was found sitting in a tree.
6. A photo of little Cecilia Sichan in 1987 spread all over the world. A 4-year-old girl miraculously survived a plane crash in Detroit on August 16. The tragedy claimed the lives of 156 people, but how Cecilia survived in such an incident is still a big mystery. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 was unable to gain altitude - the liner was carried into a pole, then it capsized and, sliding along the road, flew into the overpass.
During the special operation, rescuers witnessed a heartbreaking picture: a tiny girl with eyes huge in fear sits in her chair, and next to her are the bodies of her parents and 6-year-old brother.
7. In 2009, another tragedy shocked the world: an Airbus A310 crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoros. There were 142 passengers and 11 crew members on board the plane, which flew from the capital of Yemen, Sanaa to the city of Moroni. Finding someone alive was simply not possible.
But a miracle did happen: 10 hours after the tragedy, rescuers found a little girl in the ocean, who spent all this time in the water without a life jacket. In addition, as the baby's father later admitted, she did not even know how to swim! Bahia Bakary held on to the wreckage of the plane.
July 7 passenger plane airlines Air Canada, flying from Toronto, mistakenly headed not for the runway, but for the taxiway, where four other airliners were at that moment. The controllers managed to stop the pilot in time, give the command to go around, after which the plane safely landed on the correct lane.
According to the head of Aero Consulting Experts and former United Airlines pilot Ross Aimer, the incident threatened to become the largest disaster in the history of aviation: “Imagine a huge Airbus that crashes into four passenger liners with full tanks.”
Recall the most famous and unusual cases of survival in plane crashes.
Boeing 777 crash in San Francisco
On July 6, 2013, a Boeing 777 crashed in San Francisco. The Boeing 777-28EER of Asiana Airlines was flying OZ-214 on the Seoul-San Francisco route, but while landing at the San Francisco airport, it crashed into an embankment in front of the end of the runway and collapsed.
The NTSB commission called the erroneous actions of the crew the cause of the disaster: the plane was descending too quickly. The pilots noticed that the descent rate and airspeed were not appropriate when the aircraft was 60 meters from the ground, but took no action to go around. More precisely, 1.5 seconds before the collision, the crew decided to go around, but there was no opportunity for this. 
The aircraft's tail and left engine came off from the impact, the fuselage slid along the runway for about 600 meters and described an almost complete circle - it turned 330 degrees. 
Of the 307 people on board (291 passengers and 16 crew members), 3 schoolgirls died (two at the crash site, one died in the hospital), 187 people were injured. "Only three people" - it's hard to believe, looking at the photos of the crashed liner. 
This plane crash showed that serious damage to the aircraft does not mean big casualties. There is one more interesting circumstance: contrary to the widespread theory, according to which the most safe places are at the back of the plane, all three crash victims were sitting right there.
The cabin of Flight 214 after the crash: 
Miracle in Toronto 2005
It was a high-profile case when all the people survived when the liner was completely destroyed.
On August 2, 2005, an Air France A340 crashed near Toronto International Airport on flight AFR358 on the Paris-Toronto route. On board were 12 crew members and 297 passengers. 
The landing approach was carried out in difficult weather conditions with large thunderstorms over the airport in heavy rain and lightning flashes on the runway. Landing was carried out in manual mode with the autopilot and autothrottle disabled. 
Having flown the end of the runway much higher than the established one, the airliner landed further than a third from the beginning of the runway length. The pilots reversed but failed to stop within the runway, causing the aircraft to run off the runway and roll into a ravine. A fire broke out, which in a few minutes engulfed the airliner and destroyed it, but all 309 people on board were evacuated in time.
The evacuation of 309 people took less than 2 minutes, which was later called by many, including the Minister of Transport of Canada, Jean Lapierre, "a miracle." 
Survive after falling from a 5 km height
Young student Larisa Savitskaya and her husband Vladimir were returning from their honeymoon. On August 24, 1981, the An-24 aircraft, on which the Savitsky spouses flew, collided with a Tu-16 military bomber at an altitude of 5220 m. After the collision, the crews of both aircraft were killed. As a result of the collision, the An-24 lost wings with fuel tanks and the top of the fuselage. The remainder broke several times during the fall.
Passenger aircraft An-24: 
At the time of the crash, Larisa Savitskaya was sleeping in her chair in the tail section of the plane. I woke up from a strong blow and a sudden burn (the temperature instantly dropped from 25 ° C to? 30 ° C). After another break in the fuselage, which passed right in front of her seat, Larisa was thrown into the aisle, waking up, she got to the nearest seat, climbed in and pressed herself into it, without wearing her seat belt. Larisa herself subsequently claimed that at that moment she remembered an episode from the film “Miracles Still Happen”, where the heroine pressed herself into a chair during a plane crash and survived.
Tu-16K bomber: 
Part of the body of the aircraft was planned on a birch grove, which softened the blow. According to subsequent studies, the entire fall of the aircraft fragment measuring 3 meters wide by 4 meters long, where Savitskaya ended up, took 8 minutes. Savitskaya was unconscious for several hours. Waking up on the ground, Larisa saw a chair in front of her with the body of her dead husband. She received a number of serious injuries, but was able to move independently. 
Two days later, rescuers found her, who were very surprised when, after two days they came across only the bodies of the dead, they met a living person. She later learned that a grave had already been dug for both her and her husband. She was the only survivor of the 38 people on board. The reasons for the collision of aircraft were unsatisfactory organization and management of flights in the area of the Zavitinsk airfield.
Larisa Savitskaya is twice included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records:
as a survivor of a fall from maximum height,
as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage - 75 rubles. According to the standards of the State Insurance in the USSR, 300 rubles were supposed to be. compensation for damages for the dead and 75 rubles. for plane crash survivors.
Larisa Savitskaya with her son George. 
Survive falling from a height of 10 km without a parachute
The DC-9 crash over Hermsdorf is an aviation accident that occurred on January 26, 1972. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 airliner of Yugoslav Airlines operated flight JAT367 on the route Stockholm - Copenhagen - Zagreb - Belgrade, but 46 minutes after departure from Copenhagen, the liner exploded in the air. According to some reports, a Croatian extremist group left a bomb in the luggage compartment of the liner.
JAT DC-9-32, identical to the blown up one: 
The explosion of the liner occurred over the German city of Hermsdorf, and the wreckage of the aircraft fell near the city of Ceska Kamenice (Czechoslovakia). Of the 28 people on board (23 passengers and 5 crew members), only one survived - 22-year-old stewardess Vesna Vulovich, who fell without a parachute from a height of 10,160 meters. She is the holder of the Guinness Book of World Records for the height of the world record for surviving a free fall without a parachute.
Spring was in a coma and received many injuries: fractures of the base of the skull, three vertebrae, both legs and pelvis. The treatment took 16 months, of which for 10 the girl was paralyzed in the lower part of the body (from the waist to the legs). 
Miracle on the Hudson: A320 Crash Landing
This accident happened on January 15, 2009. The US Airways Airbus A320-214 was flying AWE 1549 on the New York-Charlotte-Seattle route with 150 passengers and 5 crew members on board. 1.5 minutes after takeoff, the liner collided with a flock of birds and both engines failed. Commander Chesley Sullenberger, a former US Air Force pilot, decided that the only option to save the 155 people on board was to land on the Hudson River. The landing turned out to be successful. 
The crew landed the plane safely on the waters of the Hudson River in New York. All 155 people on board survived, 83 people were injured - 5 serious (one flight attendant suffered the most) and 78 minor.
The incident is known as the "Miracle on the Hudson" by the BB media. In total, 11 cases of controlled forced landings of passenger airliners on the water are known, this case is the fourth without any casualties.
By the way, yesterday, July 17, 2017 the plane " Ural Airlines”(flight U6-2932 Simferopol - Yekaterinburg) collided with a flock of birds, as a result of which the nose cone was damaged. It would seem that such a colossus and some birds, but ... the plane was repaired in the end for 12 hours.
Here's what a bird strike looks like from the pilot's seat and from the outside: 
Tu-124 landing on the Neva
This splashdown incident occurred in Soviet aviation in the sky over Leningrad on August 21, 1963. As a result of a combination of circumstances, passenger aircraft Tu-124 engines failed, the liner began to glide from a height of half a kilometer above the city center. The crew had no choice but to try to make a splashdown on the surface of the Neva. All 52 people on board survived.
Initially, the commission investigating the circumstances of the accident held responsibility for emergency situation to the crew. But later it was decided not to punish the pilots. 
Il-12 splashdown in Kazan
And 10 years earlier, on April 30, 1953, the Aeroflot Il-12 P aircraft operated flight 35 on the Moscow - Kazan - Novosibirsk route. On board were 18 passengers and 5 crew members. At 21:37, at the moment when the liner, preparing for landing in Kazan, was flying over the Volga, there was a very strong blow. Crew members recalled that their eyes had gone dark. Both engines lost power, and flames appeared from the exhaust pipes.
IL-12 Aeroflot: 
The commander of the ship decided to make an emergency splashdown. IL-12 splashed down in the area of the Kazan river port, after which the car began to rapidly fill with river water. the evacuation was not carried out in time. The crew told the passengers that the plane splashed down in shallow water, which caused many to attend to picking up personal belongings. In fact, the depth of the river in this place reached about 20 meters. As a result, people who put on outerwear ended up in the water and began to drown. Of the 22 people, one passenger drowned. The Commission of Inquiry determined that the cause of the emergency was a collision of an aircraft with a flock of ducks.
Miracle in the Andes
On October 13, 1972, an FH-227 plane crash occurred, which was called the "Miracle in the Andes". The Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild FH-227D operated a charter flight FAU 571 on the Montevideo-Mendoza-Santiago route, and on board were 5 crew members and 40 passengers (members of the Old Cristians rugby team, their relatives and sponsors). On approach to Santiago, the liner fell into a cyclone, crashed into a rock and crashed at the foot of the mountain.
Aircraft Fairchild FH-227D board T-571: 
The survivors had a minimal supply of food, in addition, they lacked the heat sources necessary to survive in the harsh cold climate at an altitude of 3,600 meters. Desperate from hunger and radio reports that "all activities to search for the missing aircraft are stopped," people began to eat the frozen bodies of their dead comrades. Rescuers learned about the survivors only after 72 days ... 
12 passengers died in a fall and collision with a rock, 5 more died later from wounds and cold. Then, out of the remaining 28 survivors, another 8 died during an avalanche that covered their "home" from the fuselage of the aircraft, and later three more died of wounds.
Boeing 737 accident over Kahului
This accident happened on April 28, 1988. A Boeing 737-297 airliner operated by Aloha Airlines domestic flight AQ 243 on the Hilo-Honolulu route, and on board were 6 crew members and 89 passengers. But 23 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft suddenly tore off a significant part of the fuselage structure in the bow. According to the report, the causes of the accident were metal corrosion, poor epoxy bonding of the fuselage parts, and rivet fatigue. 
94 people out of 95 survived. Senior stewardess Clarabelle Lansing died - at the time of the failure of part of the fuselage, she was in the middle of the plane, and she was thrown out by the air flow. Her body, as well as a torn off fragment of the fuselage about 5.4 meters long, the search teams could not find. 
People thrown overboard during a crash almost never survive. And those who did it will never forget Asiana Flight 214 after an emergency landing in San Francisco.
In July of this year, an aircraft of the South Korean airline Asiana Airlines made emergency landing at the San Francisco airport. A moment before the liner touched the runway, its tail fell off, in which there were five people. A teenage girl from Korea nearly finished sixth.
She was sitting in row 41, where a fault line passed, along which the tail section broke away from the rest of the aircraft.
“Everything that was behind me disappeared in an instant,” she told reporters from Mercury News in broken English. She asked not to be named. Two girls and three stewardesses sat behind them in the fallen tail. “Just now there were two toilets and suddenly there was nothing, just blinding light.”
One of the girls fell out of her seat later than the other four and ended up next to the left wing of the plane. Experts believe that it was covered with a layer of fire-fighting foam, and then hit by a fire truck that arrived at the scene.
A second girl from Row 41 died from injuries sustained after she was dragged along the runway for about 400 meters.
Miraculously, all three flight attendants survived, who were dragged along the ground for more than 300 meters. They were found next to a Boeing 747 waiting to take off. The pilot of this plane saw all this from his cockpit:
“The two survivors, albeit with difficulty, but moved ... I saw how one of them got up and walked a few steps, but then squatted down. Another, also a woman, I think, walked, then fell on her side and remained on the ground until rescuers arrived.
They were so far away from the main body of the plane that it took rescuers 14 minutes to find them.
Today's commercial aircraft transport hundreds of people 10 times faster than they could travel in a car, which in turn is 10 times faster than a human being can walk.
And although flights have become a familiar part of our lives, it is difficult for us to even imagine the physical forces that the body of the aircraft we sit inside has to withstand. If a person were outside the porthole, he would almost instantly die under the influence of several factors at once: barotrauma, friction, blunt force, hypoxia - they would still compete which one of them would kill us.
And yet, very rarely, but those who find themselves on the wrong side of the aircraft skin survive. Some survived being ejected from flying high altitude passenger aircraft. Some were thrown back by the explosion, others were torn from their chairs at the place of the faults. It happened that people jumped themselves, it happened that someone pushed them.
There are real reasons why crash survival is becoming more and more common, even if a person is ejected from a plane at high altitude.
If a commercial airliner crashes, there is a good chance of survival. One widely cited statistic puts the survival rate at around 80 percent, and the numbers are rising with each new generation of aircraft.
The aircraft on Asiana Flight 214 was a Boeing 777, one of the newest and safest aircraft to operate. The 777 seats that the flight attendants "ride" on the runway were designed to withstand up to 16 G's of force before being blown off the floor.
In many previous crashes with less secure seats, these torn-off seats have effectively become rocket launchers in the cabin. The solid bracing was supposed to keep the Asiana seats in place, which probably also made them a safe sled for the Asiana crew.
Oddly enough, the earliest documented case of surviving a jet from a commercial flight bears a striking resemblance to the Asiana crash, even though safety science was then half a century younger.
In April 1965, a British United Airways aircraft was descending towards Jersey, an island off the coast of the Channel Coast of France. The pilot, like the Asiana, misjudged the landing approach. In addition, like the Korean plane, the rear end crashed into an object on the ground, the entire tail section was torn off, and the stewardess was ejected from there. Twenty-two-year-old Dominique Silier was found near the wreckage, badly injured but alive. She is the only one left alive.
In the 48 years between these two accidents, the number of people who have also been ejected from the liners and survived is less than ten (according to data published by the media and collected in amateur databases).
Society reacts to survivors like, "You're so lucky!" But we cannot even imagine what a terrible trauma it is for them. Survivors tend to be reluctant to share their stories.
It is especially worth highlighting cases when people fell out of flying planes and remained alive. Most famous case occurred with Juliane Koepke, a teenage girl from Germany who, on Christmas Eve 1971, was thrown out of a plane that exploded over Peru.
While in her chair, she flew about 3,000 meters before falling into a thicket in the jungle. Bruised and missing one shoe, she walked along streams and rivers for 11 days before finding help.
German filmmaker Werner Herzog was also scheduled to fly on that flight and after the tragedy visited the crash site to film his 2000 documentary Wings of Hope.
Nine-year-old Colombian Erika Delgado survived a similar fall in 1995 when her mother pushed her out of a burning plane. wrecked near Cartagena. The exact figures are unknown, but another pilot reported an explosion of the plane, which broke into two parts at an altitude of about 3.5 thousand meters. The Delgados landed in the swamp next to the rest of the wreckage.
In 1985, a Galaxy Airlines plane crashed on takeoff from Reno. A row of 17-year-old Lamson's seats was ripped out completely and landed vertically on a nearby road. The teen unbuckled his seatbelts and started running until the billboard he saw brought him back to reality.
Lamson later tried to figure out how he managed to survive in such a mess. Lamson had been diving for a long time, so he followed his instinct and buried his head in his knees, as if in a somersault when the plane was thrown up for the first time. When a row of seats vomited, his legs protected him, and his father, who was sitting next to him, died from a head injury.
This is the answer to the "how" question. The answer to the question "why", many of them will never be able to get it.
Aviation accidents appeared along with aeronautics, but only by the 40s of the 20th century did these cases begin to be recorded. The rating includes people who survived plane crashes. 10 cases were considered when only one person survived from all the passengers.
10.Julianne Diller Koepke(December 24, 1971) - the only survivor of a plane crash, a seventeen-year-old girl . On that terrible night, she was on board a Peruvian airline liner with her parents. A thunderstorm began, and lightning struck the plane. The air car began to fall apart at an altitude of 3200 meters and fell into the rainforest. The piece that held Julianne's chair fell off while still in the air. He flew down through the raging elements and rotated in a circle at breakneck speed. The fragment, along with Julianne, landed on the crowns of trees, which saved the girl. Her collarbone was broken and there were numerous wounds. The survivor found the strength to get up and go to seek help. Having stumbled upon a stream in the jungle, she went down its course. On the tenth day, Julianna went out to the settlement. The story of the heroic girl formed the basis of several feature films.
9.Vesna Vulovich(January 26, 1972) - A twenty-two-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 was flying over Czechoslovakia at an altitude of 10160 meters, an explosion occurred on the ship. The Yugoslav stewardess, by the will of fate, was on board that day - she replaced her colleague. The branches of the trees on which the girl had fallen softened the blow. Vulovich did not come to his senses for almost a month and spent a year and a half in a hospital bed. 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 (August 24, 1981). Together with her husband, a young woman was returning home from her honeymoon. A bomber crashed into their An-24 plane over the city of Zavitinsky at an altitude of 5220 meters. All people in two planes (37 people) were killed. The girl was in the tail section of the broken AN-24. From a height of five thousand, Larisa fell on a large piece of debris. The fall lasted 8 minutes. A piece of the airliner, along with the victim, fell on birch plantations, which softened the force of the blow. Larisa, a plane crash survivor, spent two nights alone in the forest. Despite the concussion, numerous abrasions and injuries, she could move independently. Graves were prepared for all passengers, including Larisa. The search engines were taken aback when they saw her alive. The woman got into the Guinness Book of Records twice: as 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 that occurred in the US state of Nevada. A seventeen-year-old boy was returning with his father on a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft with ski resort. Suddenly, the aircraft rolled heavily on one side and began to fall. George pulled his knees to his chest as the plane hit the ground. Together with the seat, it was carried out of the fuselage a moment 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 pilot error in assessing the situation, as a result of which the Lockheed L-188 Electra lost speed and fell.
6.Cecilia Sichan(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 caught the lighting tower with his wing, which caused it to fall off and catch fire. The liner moved to the right, and with the second wing it broke through the roof of the building. The aircraft simply fell apart into pieces, which were scattered over almost a kilometer area. Cecilia was found under the rubble by a firefighter. After numerous fractures and burns, the girl was able to recover. Cecilia's parents were victims of the same tragedy. Now the girl is not afraid to fly, believing that "the shell does not hit the same place twice."
5. Nine year old Erica Delgado ( January 11, 1995) was on the list of the only survivors of plane crashes thanks to her mother. Together with her family, she was on board, making a flight from Bogota to Cartagena (Colombia). The cause of the terrible disaster was a malfunction of the instruments of the ship, which crashed to the ground during the landing approach. At the time of the fall, the mother pushed the child out of the collapsing liner, and the girl fell into a lake overgrown with algae. She was rescued by a local farmer after hearing cries for help. Erica escaped with a broken arm, the rest of the passengers and crew members (52 people) died.
4.Yousef Jillali(March 6, 2003) - the only survivor of a plane crash that occurred in the city of Tamanrasset (Algeria). The Boeing 737-200 crashed on takeoff due to engine failure. Being in airspace Due to the ignition of the engine, the ship began to rapidly lose speed. The Boeing crashed in a rocky area, not far from the airfield and shattered into pieces. Of the 104 crew members, only the twenty-eight-year-old soldier Jillali managed to escape. The victim suffered multiple 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. Sunday morning (August 27, 2006) in Kentucky, a fire broke out on board a Lexington-Atlanta flight. 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 Polehinka managed to escape. Firefighters pulled him out of the cab on fire. The cause of the accident was the pilots' use of a shorter runway. As a result of this, the air machine, having rammed an iron fence and crashed into a tree, collapsed and caught fire.
2. Thirteen Bahia Bakary- the only surviving passenger on the flight Paris - Comoros (June 30, 2009). A few minutes before landing, the aircraft began to rapidly fall and crashed into the waters. indian ocean. The girl cannot describe the circumstances of what happened, as she was sleeping. Presumably, she was thrown through the porthole. Bahia waited for 14 hours for help from rescuers, drifting in the open ocean on a wreck that did not sink. So she was the only survivor of 153 people.
1. Flight engineer Alexander Sizov - survivor of a plane crash that occurred 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 slipped the entire runway, the plane began to rise from the ground, abruptly falling on the left wing. After that, the car collapsed, shattering into pieces, which were thrown several hundred meters in the area. Alexander came to himself only when he found himself in a river burning from kerosene. Despite numerous fractures and subsequent operations, the fifty-two-year-old passenger managed to survive. The cause of the tragedy that happened on board the Yak-42 was a crew error during takeoff.
Unfortunately, none of the victims of the crash over the Egyptian sky survived. It would, of course, be like a miracle. And in the history of the world such miracles have happened.
In the first hours after the plane crashed in the sky over Egypt, there were still hopes that someone could survive after suffering horror and injuries. Alas, these hopes were not justified. In general, in the entire history of air crashes, the number of survivors is 56 people. These are usually called born again. IA "Amitel" remembers these miraculously saved people.
With a bag of candy through the jungle
In December 1971, Soviet newspapers published an article about 17-year-old Julian Koepka, a girl who survived the fall of the LANSA Lockheed L-188 Electra airliner, which crashed on December 24, 1971. The disaster happened in the sky over Peru, the liner crashed from a height of three thousand meters into the thick of the rainforest.
Juliana woke up the day after the crash. She felt unwell, lost her glasses and was constantly losing consciousness. I decided to look for something to eat. Found a bag of candy. And with him for nine days she made her way through the jungle.
Her story became the subject of two documentaries, and in 1974 the American-Italian feature film Miracles Still Happen was released.
Despite numerous offers from publishers to write memoirs, Juliana for a long time refused to remember the tragedy in which, by the way, her mother died. Her memoirs "When I fell from the sky" were released only in 2011.
Today Giuliana Koepke works as a librarian in Peru.
Damaged due to a mistake
The name of the Yugoslav flight attendant Vesna Vulovic is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who survived "after a free fall without a parachute from the maximum recorded height."
The accident happened on January 26, 1972. The liner, flying on the route Stockholm - Copenhagen - Zagreb - Belgrade, exploded 46 minutes after taking off from the Danish capital in the sky over the city of Hermsdorf (GDR). The wreckage of the aircraft fell near the Czechoslovak city of Ceska Kamenice. The explosion occurred in the luggage compartment and, according to the official version, was arranged by an underground organization of the Ustashe - Croatian nationalists.
Vesna Vulović was not supposed to fly on JAT 367, but due to a mistake by the administration of JAT, Yugoslav Airlines was assigned to him instead of her colleague, flight attendant Vesna Nikolic. Vulovich herself had not yet been trained by that time and was in the crew as a trainee.
Shortly after the wreckage of the plane hit the ground, they had locals. They began to search for survivors. Vesna Vulovich was discovered by the peasant Bruno Henke, who gave her the first medical care and handed it over to the paramedics who arrived.
The first days Vulovich was in a coma. After she regained consciousness, she asked for a cigarette, which, of course, was refused. The treatment took 16 months. After she tried to return to work as a flight attendant, because she did not have a fear of flying. However, the company got her an office job.
A certificate of entry into the Guinness Book was presented to her in 1985 by her musical idol Paul McCartney.
Saved movie about salvation
On August 24, 1981, 20-year-old Soviet student Larisa Savitskaya, together with her husband, flew on an AN-24RV plane on the Komsomolsk-on-Amur-Blagoveshchensk flight. At an altitude of 5200 meters, the liner collided with a TU-16K bomber, which was performing meteorological reconnaissance. As a result, both aircraft collapsed while still in the air and fell to the ground. At the time of the collision, Savitskaya was asleep and woke up from a strong blow and a sudden burn. She was thrown into the aisle, she pressed herself into one of the chairs. According to her, she managed to remember the episode of the film "Miracles still happen" (it was in the Soviet box office), in which the heroine did just that when the plane crashed
Larisa was saved by the fact that part of the plane where she was, fell on a birch grove. It softened the blow. She spent two days waiting for help among the wreckage and corpses.
When rescuers arrived at the scene and found the survivor, they were shocked.
After that, the fate of Larisa Savitskaya was not easy. She later suffered temporary paralysis from her injuries, but she recovered from it nonetheless. She even gave birth to a son.
Among the sands and blizzards
About the very first disaster in the history of civil aviation, as a result of which not all those on board died, it is known that it happened on September 5, 1936 in international airport Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Skyways plane crashed during a sightseeing flight. Ten people died, only 17-year-old Linda McDonald survived.
Geologist Asem Shayakhmetova, the passenger of the AN-2 aircraft of the Kazakhmys airline, was the last survivor of the plane crash. The disaster occurred on January 20, 2015 in the area of the Shatyrkul mine in the Shu district of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan. The reasons for the plane crash have not yet been made public, the main version is the loss of visibility due to a snowstorm.
Also widely known is the story of the crash of the FH-227 in the Andes, known as the "miracle in the Andes." Then on board the Uruguayan Air Force plane crashed into a rock there was a rugby team. True, this tragedy is often not included in the chronicles of aircraft crashes from a height, since the plane still tried to make an emergency landing and crashed after hooking the top of the peak with its tail. About this case, about the fate of the survivors, films were made and books were written.
by the most famous person The plane crash survivor was, of course, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
On April 7, 1992, a small military aircraft was transporting the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Khartoum to Tripoli. However, there was a sandstorm en route and the plane crashed in the desert. Four crew members died - Arafat was the only one who survived. This incident greatly strengthened his authority among the leaders of the PLO, who in those years were engaged in a fierce struggle for power.
