Born again. Who managed to survive the plane crashes?
November 2, 2015, 13:40, IA "Amitel", Evgeny Bersenev
Unfortunately, none of the victims of the crash over the Egyptian skies survived. It would, of course, be akin to a miracle. And such miracles have happened in world history.
In the first hours after the plane crash, there were still hopes in the skies over Egypt that someone would be able to survive after the horror and trauma suffered. Alas, these hopes did not come true. In general, in the entire history of plane crashes, the number of survivors is 56 people. These are usually called reborn. 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 Cap, a girl who survived the crash of the LANSA's Lockheed L-188 Electra that crashed on December 24, 1971. The disaster happened in the skies over Peru, the liner crashed from a height of three thousand meters into the thick of a tropical forest.
Juliana woke up the day after the disaster. She felt unwell, lost her glasses and constantly fainted. I decided to look for something to eat. Found a bag of sweets. And with him for nine days she made her way through the jungle.
Her story became the plot for two documentaries, and in 1974 the American-Italian feature film "Miracles Still Happen" was released.
Despite numerous offers from publishers to write memoirs, Juliana long 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.
Juliana Kepke is now a librarian in Peru.
Suffered due to error
The name of the Yugoslavian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic is entered in the Guinness Book of Records as a survivor "after a free fall without a parachute from the maximum fixed height."
The disaster happened on January 26, 1972. The liner, performing a flight 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 plane fell in the area of the Czechoslovak city of Ceska Kamenice. The explosion occurred in the luggage compartment and, according to the official version, was staged by an underground organization Ustasha - Croatian nationalists.
Vesna Vulovic was not supposed to fly on flight JAT 367, but due to a mistake by the administration of JAT - Yugoslav Airlines, she was sent to him instead of her colleague, the flight attendant Vesna Nikolic. By that time, Vulovich herself had not yet completed training and was in the crew as a trainee.
Soon after the wreckage of the plane fell to the ground, they were home to local residents. They began to search for survivors. Spring Vulovich was discovered by the peasant Bruno Henke, who provided her with first aid and handed her over to the arriving doctors.
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. Then she tried to return to work as a flight attendant, since she did not have a fear of flying. However, the company got her an office job.
The certificate of getting into the Guinness Book was presented to her in 1985 by her musical idol Paul McCartney.
Saved by the movie about salvation
On August 24, 1981, a 20-year-old Soviet student, Larisa Savitskaya, flew with her husband on an AN-24RV plane on the Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk flight. At an altitude of 5200 meters, the airliner collided with a TU-16K bomber, which was carrying out meteorological surveys. As a result, both aircraft collapsed in the air and fell to the ground. At the moment of the collision, Savitskaya was asleep and woke up from a strong blow and a sudden burn. She was thrown into the aisle, she sank into one of the chairs. According to her, she managed to recall an 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 rescued by the fact that the part of the plane, where she was, fell on a birch grove. This softened the blow. She spent two days waiting for help among the wreckage and corpses.
When rescuers arrived at the scene and found the surviving girl, they were shocked.
After that, the fate of Larisa Savitskaya was not easy. She later developed temporary paralysis from her injuries, but nevertheless she recovered from it. And she was even able to give 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 everyone on board died, it is known that it happened on September 5, 1936 at the Pittsburgh International Airport. A Pittsburgh Skyways plane crashed during a sightseeing flight. Ten people died, only 17-year-old Linda MacDonald survived.
The last survivor of the plane crash was the passenger of the AN-2 aircraft of the Kazakhmys airline, geologist Asem Shayakhmetova. The disaster took place on January 20, 2015 in the area of the Shatyrkul mine in the Shusky district of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan. The reasons for the plane's crash have not yet been made public, the main version is the loss of visibility due to a blizzard.
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 plane crashed into the rock of the Uruguayan Air Force was a rugby team. True, this tragedy is often not included in the chronicles of aircraft crashes from a height, since the plane nevertheless tried to make an emergency landing and fell after it caught the top of the peak with its tail. About this case, about the fate of the survivors, films were made and books were written.
The most famous survivor of the plane crash was, of course, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
On April 7, 1992, a small military plane transported the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Khartoum to Tripoli. However, there was a sandstorm on the way, and the plane crashed in the desert. Four crew members were killed - Arafat was the only one who survived. This greatly strengthened his authority among the leaders of the PLO, who in those years waged a fierce struggle for power.
