List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents
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List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents

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Name of sole survivor	Age on date of accident	Passenger or Crew	Operator	Flight / information	Date	No. of fatalities	Sources

Linda McDonald	17	P	Skyways	Skyways sightseeing plane disaster	5 September 1936	10

Clarence Bates	41	C	Northwest Airlines	Northwest Airlines Flight 5	30 October 1941	14

Lt Andrew Jack	24	C	Royal Air Force	RAF Short Sunderland flying boat crash killing Prince George, Duke of Kent, at August 1942 Dunbeath Air Crash	25 August 1942	15

John Alfred Howard	26	P	Pan American-Grace Airways	Flight 9	22 January 1943	14

Foye Kenneth Roberts	22	P	U.S. Army Air Forces	Bakers Creek air crash	14 June 1943	40

Eduard Prchal	32	C	RAF	Gibraltar B-24 crash	4 July 1943	10

Peter Link	3	P	Trans-Luxury Airlines	California Trans-Luxury Airlines crash	5 September 1946	20

William Ellis Keyes, Jr.	25	P	Eastern Airlines	Flight 665	12 January 1947	18

Paul Ashton Vick	18 months	P	China National Aviation Corporation	Hankou crash	28 January 1947	25

Eugene Leonard	38	P	Air France	Lisbon mountain crash	1 February 1947	15

Tripolina Meo	33	P	Delta Air Lines	Flight 705	10 March 1948	12

Mark Worst	P	Pan Am	Flight 1–10	15 April 1948	30

Moutafis	P	Sabena	Douglas DC-4 crash	12 May 1948	31

Huang Yu (Chinese: 黃裕, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáng Yù, Cantonese: Wong Yu)	24	P	Cathay Pacific	Miss Macao	17 July 1948	25

Isaac Allal	12	P	Aero Holland	Hurum air disaster	20 November 1949	34

Olga Rada	10	P	LANSA	Galeras Douglas C-47 crash	24 May 1950	25

Sgt. Haru Sazaki	P	U.S. Air Force	Douglas C-47 crash	27 July 1950	25

P/O P. D. Cliff	P	RAF	Aldbury Valetta accident	6 January 1954	16

Concetta Finamore	P	Linee Aeree Italiane	LAI Flight 451	24 November 1956	34

Néstor Mata	31	P	Philippine Air Force	Cebu Douglas C-47 crash	17 March 1957	25

P	Eagle Aviation Limited	Blackbushe Viking accident	1 May 1957	34

P	Austral Líneas Aéreas	Flight 205	16 January 1959	51

Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley	33	P	Piedmont Airlines	Flight 349	30 October 1959	26

Louis Matarazzo	P	Allegheny Airlines	Flight 371	1 December 1959	25

Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet	29	C	U.S. Air Force	USAF Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation crash	25 April 1967	15

P	Aeroflot	Flight 15	29 February 1968	83

Capt. George A. Burk	28	P	U.S. Air Force	T-29 Convair crash	4 May 1970	13

Juan Loo	26	C	LANSA	Flight 502	9 August 1970	99

Juliane Koepcke	17	P	LANSA	Flight 508	24 December 1971	91

Vesna Vulović	22	C	JAT Yugoslav	Flight 367	26 January 1972	27

Neil James Campbell	P	Pan Am	Flight 816	22 July 1973	78

John McCafferty	16	P	Downeast Airlines	Flight 46	30 May 1979	17

Larisa Savitskaya	20	P	Aeroflot	Flight 811	24 August 1981	31

Remberto Aparicio	26	P	Taxi Aéreo El Venado	Paipa Embraer Bandeirante crash	2 September 1981	21

AT2 Melissa Kelly	30	P	U.S. Navy	USN Convair C-131 crash	30 April 1983	14

27	P	Aeroflot	Flight 3519	23 December 1984	110

George Lamson Jr.	17	P	Galaxy Airlines	Flight 203	21 January 1985	70

Ouologuem	P	Air Mali	Air Mali (TZ-ACT) crash	22 February 1985	51

Neuba Yessoh Damase	P	VARIG	Flight 797	3 January 1987	50

Cecelia Cichan	4	P	Northwest Airlines	Flight 255	16 August 1987	156

Lt. Edilberto Villar	C	Peruvian Navy	Alianza Lima air disaster	8 December 1987	43

Fahraddin Balaev	P	Soviet Air Force	Soviet Air Force CCCP-86732 crash	11 December 1988	77

Bambang Sumadi	P	Indonesian Air Force	Indonesian Air Force A-1324 crash	5 October 1991	136

Annette Herfkens	31	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 474	14 November 1992	30

Erika Delgado	9	P	Intercontinental de Aviación	Flight 256	11 January 1995	52

Ulziibayar Sanjaa	27	P	MIAT Mongolian Airlines	21 September 1995	42

Irianto	40	P	Dirgantara Air Service	Flight 5940	7 December 1996	18

Chanayuth Nim-anong	14 months	P	Vietnam Airlines	Flight 815	3 September 1997	65

Sergei Petrov	37	C	Tajik Air	Flight 3183	15 December 1997	85

Youcef Djillali	28	P	Air Algérie	Flight 6289	6 March 2003	102

Lt. Martin Farkaš	P	Slovak Air Force	Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash	19 January 2006	42

James M. Polehinke	C	Comair	Flight 5191	27 August 2006	44

Abdülkadir Akyüz	P	AerianTur-M	Balad aircraft crash	9 January 2007	34

2	P	Great Lakes Business Company	Kongolo Antonov An-32B crash	26 August 2007	14

Surendra Kunwar	C	Yeti Airlines	Flight 103	8 October 2008	18

Robert Decker	28	P	Cougar Helicopters	Flight 91	12 March 2009	17

Bahia Bakari	13	P	Yemenia	Flight 626	30 June 2009	152

Ruben van Assouw	8 or 9 or 10	P	Afriqiyah Airways	Flight 771	12 May 2010	103

P	Filair	Bandundu Filair Let L-410 crash	25 August 2010	20

Francis Mwamba	P	Georgian Airways / United Nations	United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash	4 April 2011	32

Alexander Sizov	52	C	Yak-Service	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash	7 September 2011	44

Nimer Djelloul	21	P	Algerian Air Force	Algerian Air Force 7T-WHM crash	11 February 2014	77

Mailen Diaz Almaguer	19	P	Cubana de Aviación	Flight 972	18 May 2018	112

Farshad Mahdavinejad	C	Saha Airlines	Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash	14 January 2019	15

Sentence(s)

The sole survivor was a 4-year-old, Cecelia Cichan.

final_sentence: The sole survivor was a 4-year-old, Cecelia Cichan.