List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents

Also excluded 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.

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.

On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash near Pittsburgh that killed 10 other people, including her boyfriend.

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.

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Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia .