In 2007, Francesca Lewis managed to avoid death in the Panamanian mountains thanks to the fact that she was inundated with luggage, and this saved her from freezing. A 12-year-old girl nearly lost her life after the single-engine Cessna she was aboard crashed into a volcano, killing three people. Not only did she miraculously survive the collision, but she spent two and a half days afterwards, pinned in her chair, without food or water, and wearing only shorts and a T-shirt. Three others on board the plane - Francesca's best friend, 13-year-old Thalia Klein, Thalia's father, 37-year-old millionaire Michael Klein, and 23-year-old pilot Edwin Lasso - died instantly.

The girls studied together at a school located in Santa Barbara, California, and were in Panama on vacation.

2. Baya Bakary: The only survivor of the Yemenia Airways plane crash

14-year-old French schoolgirl Baia Bakary became the sole survivor of the Yemenia Flight 626 crash. The plane crashed in Indian Ocean near north coast Grande Comore Islands (Comoros) June 30, 2009. The remaining 152 people on board were killed. Bakari, who could barely swim and did not have a life jacket, spent more than 13 hours in rough seas, mostly at night, clinging to the wreckage of the aircraft. The girl was rescued by the private ship Sima Com 2. As soon as Bakary was spotted, a member of the rescue team threw her a lifeline, but the sea was too rough and the girl too tired to catch it. One of the sailors, Maturafi Seleman Libonah, jumped into the water and handed her a watercraft, after which they were both safely lifted aboard the ship. Bakary's mother, who was flying with her from Paris for a summer holiday in the Comoros, died in the crash.

3. Mohammed el-Fateh Osman: 3-year-old boy who was the only survivor of 116 passengers

In 2003, 3-year-old Mohammed El Fateh Osman was the only survivor after a Sudan Airways plane crashed into a hillside at Port Sudan Airport during takeoff. As a result of the accident, the boy lost his right leg and received severe burns. 105 passengers and all 11 crew members were killed. A boy lying on a fallen tree was found by a nomad.

4. Cecelia Sichen: Sole survivor of one of the worst plane crashes in US history

In 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed a minute after taking off from Detroit Airport, killing 154 people. Four-year-old Cecelia Sichen was the only survivor. Her mother Paula, father Michael and 6-year-old brother David were among the dead. The family was returning from vacation.

For days after the accident, the girl's identity remained a mystery until her maternal grandmother read in a news report that the girl's nails were covered in purple polish and her front tooth had a chip. Pauline Ciamaichela tearfully recalled how the girl's nails were painted lavender before returning home.

5. Reuben van Assouv: The only Dutch boy to survive a plane crash

Reuben van Assouv, 9, from the Netherlands, was found strapped to his chair amidst debris scattered across the Libyan desert. The boy was unconscious, but breathing, his legs were broken.

On May 12, 2010, an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus crashed on approach to Tripoli, killing 103 passengers and crew members. Ruben, along with his parents and brother, was returning home after a safari. The fact that he was the only one who survived, the boy found out only a few days later.

The Libyan authorities circulated a photo of the injured child, and a Dutch tabloid correspondent managed to get into Reuben's room and talk to him before he knew that his entire family had died. Now being raised by his aunt and uncle, Reuben says he hopes to return to Libya because "he wants to know what happened."

Source 6Erica Delgado: The girl who survived being pushed out of a plane by her mother

In 1995, a 10-year-old girl with a broken arm became the sole survivor of a plane crash in northern Colombia that killed 47 passengers and five crew members. Authorities have announced that the DC-9 Intercontinental exploded mid-air, but witnesses from Maria la Baje, 500 miles northwest of Bogota, say the plane crashed into the embankment without lights and then rolled over into lagoon.

Erica Delgado, who flew with her parents and younger brother from Bogota to the Caribbean resort town Cartagena, was taken to the hospital in a state of shock and with a broken arm.

One of the farmers said that he heard cries for help and found the girl on a mound of seaweed, which cushioned her fall. The girl told the farmers that her mother pushed her out of the plane when it caught fire and began to fall apart.

7. Paul Ashton Vick: The youngest of the only survivors

Paul Ashton Vick is the youngest of the only survivors. He survived a China National Aviation Corporation plane crash when he was only 16 months old in January 1947. His father, Robert Wick, was a Connecticut Baptist pastor who worked as a missionary in China after the end of World War II. Vic, his wife and two sons (2-year-old Theodore and 16-month-old Paul) were on their way from Shanghai to Chongqing. During the flight, one of the engines caught fire, the fire quickly penetrated the cockpit. When it became obvious that the twin-engine plane was doomed, some of the 23 passengers began to jump out of the plane in a panic. The Vic couple jumped out too, each with a baby in their arms. Robert Wick and Paul in his arms were the only survivors.

Robert died 40 hours later, but he managed to give the hospital staff the names of Paul's grandparents, as well as their US address. The baby, whose legs were broken, was sent to them after treatment of the injuries.

Source 8Wong Yu: The world's first hijacker to crash a plane and survive

One of the most controversial personalities on this list is Wong Yu, who in 1948 attempted to hijack Cathay Pacific's Miss Macau plane, but the result was a plane crash that killed 25 people.

The PBY Catalina was carrying extremely wealthy passengers and became the first aircraft to be hijacked in aviation history. The fishermen saw the plane crash into the water. At the crash site, they found a semi-conscious man, Wong Yu, floating in a semi-conscious state. It was eventually established that Wong Yu was one of the hijackers, after which he spent three years in prison.

1. Clothing for survival.
Your chances of survival will increase if you have the “right” clothes and shoes in the event of a plane crash. “Imagine if you need to escape from a burning plane,” says Cynthia Corbett, an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) specialist - “how comfortable would it be to do this in flip-flops or high-heeled shoes?”.
In addition to shoes, it is smart to wear thick fabrics with long legs and sleeves. This will help protect the skin from burns and sharp debris. According to the NTSB report, 68% of people who die in a plane crash die after the accident, from injuries sustained in a fire.

2. The safest places.
An analysis conducted in 2007 by Popular Mechanics showed that the largest percentage of survivors is in the tail section of the aircraft (cases of crashes since 1971 were considered). These are general statistics, of course, in some cases there were exceptions.
Regardless of which part of the aircraft you choose to seat in, try to make your choice so that it is located closer to the emergency exit. Professor Ed Galea, a fire safety engineer at the University of Greenwich in England, found that most crash survivors were no more than 5 rows from the emergency exit. He also points out that aisle seats are safer than window seats, as they allow easy access to the aisle.

3. Takeoff and landing.
Safety experts have found that the most dangerous moments in flight in terms of a crash are 3 minutes from the moment of takeoff and 9 minutes before the landing of an airliner. It is at these moments that you should stay in comfortable shoes and clothes with long sleeves, and also pay attention to emergency exits.
In addition, experts recommend placing hand luggage under the front seat. In the event of a crash, this can prevent your legs and feet from getting under the front seat. A broken leg in a collision is the most common injury.
If a collision is unavoidable, it is important to adopt a “survival posture” (see instructions in the seat in front of you).
Be sure to remove sharp and hard objects such as pencils, pens, keys from your pockets.

4. The 90 second rule.
The first 90 seconds after a disaster are the most important! If you manage to keep calm and try to get out of the plane, your chances of survival will be quite high.
Some passengers get into such a state of panic that they cannot even unfasten their seat belts. Reports from the NTSB show that many crash victims are in their seats with their seat belts fastened.
“It's very important to know what to do without waiting for instructions,” Corbett says. “Some people sit and wait to be told what to do, but no one says anything and they continue to sit right in the middle of a disaster.”
One of the reasons so many people survived the recent crash is that they were able to get off the plane quickly.
Finding and collecting your luggage can also be a fatal mistake. Don't hesitate a second.

5. No more dangerous than an escalator.
According to NTSB statistics, only one in 1.2 million flights ends in disaster. Constant improvements in safety practices, fire fighting equipment and the choice of non-flammable materials make flying by plane now safer than traveling by car.
The chance of dying in a plane crash is about 1 in 11 million, while dying in a traffic accident is 1 in 5,000.
Thus, flying today is one of the safest ways to travel. However, do not take them lightly, just do not be afraid and always need to have a plan of action.

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December 23, 1971 aircraft Lockheed L-188A airline LANSA with 92 passengers on board took off from the capital of Peru, Lima, and headed for the city of Pucallpa. 500 km northeast of the country's capital, the liner fell into a vast thunderstorm area, fell apart in the air and fell into the jungle. Only 17-year-old Juliana Dealer Kopka, who was thrown out of the plane, managed to survive in a terrible catastrophe.
Juliana Dealer Kopke“Suddenly there was an amazing silence around me. The plane has disappeared. I must have been unconscious and then I came to. I flew, spinning in the air, and could see the forest rapidly approaching under me. Then the girl, falling, lost consciousness again. When falling from a height of about 3 km. she broke her collarbone, injured her right arm, and her right eye was covered with swelling from the impact. “Perhaps I survived because I was strapped into a row of seats,” she says. “I was spinning like a helicopter, which probably slowed down the fall. In addition, the place where I landed was thickly covered with vegetation, which reduced the force of the impact. For 9 days, Juliana wandered through the jungle, trying not to leave the stream, believing that sooner or later it would lead her to civilization. The stream also gave the girl water. Nine days later, Juliana found a canoe and a shelter in which she hid and waited. Soon she was found in this shelter by lumberjacks. January 26, 1972 Croatian terrorists blew up a passenger plane over the Czech town of Serbska Kamenice McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, owned by JAT Yugoslav Airlines. The board followed from Copenhagen to Zagreb, there were 28 people on board. A bomb planted in the luggage compartment detonated at an altitude of 10,160 m. 27 passengers and crew members died, but 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovich survived after falling from a height of more than 10 km. Vesna Vulovich The plane crashed into snow-covered trees, and a few hours after the tragedy, a qualified physician turned up at the crash site, who recognized Vesna's signs of life. Her skull was fractured, both legs and three vertebrae were broken, which left her lower body paralyzed. Quick help saved the girl's life. She was in a coma for 27 days, and after another 16 months she was in the hospital. After leaving it, Vulovich continued to work in her airline, but already on the ground. miraculous rescue Vesny Vulovich is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest jump without a parachute. October 13, 1972 FH-227D/LCD crashed in the Andes. Killed 29 people out of 45 on board. The survivors were not found until December 22, 1972.
On October 13, 1972, the rugby team from Montevideo went to compete in the Chilean capital of Santiago. The Fairchild-Hiller FH-227D/LCD aircraft of the Uruguayan airline Tamu, in addition to them, was also carrying passengers and 5 crew members - a total of 45 people. On the way, they had to make an intermediate landing in Buenos Aires. However, the "side" of the T-571 fell into a strong turbulent zone. In conditions of heavy fog, the pilot made a navigational error: the aircraft, flying at an altitude of 500 m, headed straight for one of mountain peaks Argentine Andes. The crew reacted too late to the error. A few moments later, the "board" ran into the rocks, piercing the steel skin of the aircraft. The fuselage collapsed; from a terrible blow, several seats were torn off the floor and thrown out together with the passengers. Seventeen out of 45 people died instantly when the Fairchild-Hiller crashed into the snow. As a result of the plane crash, people spent two months in a snowy hell - at an altitude of 4 thousand meters, at a temperature of minus 40 degrees. Found them only on December 22!
“After the disaster, 28 people survived, but after the snow avalanche and the long exhausting weeks of starvation, only sixteen of them remained. Days, weeks passed, and people, without warm clothes, continued to live in forty-degree frost. The food that was stored on board the crashed plane was enough for a short time. Meager supplies had to be divided into crumbs to stretch for a longer time. In the end, only chocolate and a thimble norm of wine were left. But they also ran out. Hunger took its toll on the survivors: on the tenth day they began to eat corpses. " August 24, 1981 in the Far East at an altitude of 5 km. passenger plane collided An-24 airline "Aeroflot" and bomber Tu-16 USSR Air Force. Among the 32 people, only a 20-year-old survived Larisa Savitskaya returning with her husband from honeymoon trip. Larisa with her husband 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. 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. Larisa was all covered with paint flying off the fuselage, and her hair was heavily tangled in the wind. While waiting for rescuers, she built herself a temporary shelter from the wreckage of the plane, warming herself with seat covers and hiding from mosquitoes with a plastic bag. It has been raining all these days. When it ended, she waved to the rescue planes flying by, but those, not expecting to find survivors, mistook her for a geologist from a nearby camp. Larisa, the bodies of her husband and two other passengers were discovered by the last of all the victims of the disaster. Doctors diagnosed her with a concussion, spinal injuries in five places, fractures of her arm and ribs. She also lost almost all her teeth. Larisa Savitskaya From an interview with Larisa: - How did it really happen?- The planes collided on a tangent. The wings of the An-24 were torn off along with the gas tanks and the roof. For some fraction of a second, the plane turned into a "boat". At that moment I was sleeping. I remember a terrible blow, a burn - the temperature instantly dropped from plus 25 to minus 30. Terrible screams and whistling of air. My husband died immediately - at that moment my life was over. I didn't even scream. From grief did not have time to realize the fear. - Did you fall in this "boat"?- No. Then she broke apart again. The rift passed right in front of our chairs. I ended up in the tail section. I was thrown into the passage, right on the bulkheads. At first I lost consciousness, and when I came to my senses, I lie and think - but not about death, but about pain. I don't want it to hurt when I fall. And then I remembered one Italian film - "Miracles still occur." Just one episode: how the heroine escapes in a plane crash, pressing herself into a chair. Somehow I got to it... - And buckled up?- I didn't even think about it. Actions outpaced consciousness. I began to look out the window to "catch the earth." It was necessary to depreciate in time. I did not hope to be saved, I just wanted to die without pain. There was very low cloud cover, then a green flash and impact. I fell into the taiga, onto a birch tree - lucky again. - Just don't say that you didn't get any injuries.- Concussion, damage to the spine in five places, broken arms, ribs, legs. Almost all of the teeth were knocked out. But they didn't give me a disability. Doctors said: "We understand that you are disabled in the aggregate. But we can't do anything - each injury individually does not amount to disability. Now, if there was one, but serious - then please." - How much time did you spend in the taiga?- Three days. When I woke up, my husband's body lay right in front of me. The state of shock was such that I did not feel pain. I could even walk. When the rescuers found me, they could not utter anything except “mu-mu”. I understand them. Three days to remove pieces of bodies from trees, and then suddenly see a living person. Yes, and I still had that vision. I was all the color of prunes with a silvery sheen - the paint from the fuselage turned out to be extremely sticky, then my mother picked it out for a month. And the wind turned her hair into a large piece of glass wool. Surprisingly, as soon as I saw the rescuers, I could no longer walk. Relaxed. Later, in Zavitinsk, I learned that a grave had already been dug for me. They dug through the lists. August 12, 1985 Boeing 747SR-46 Japanese airline Japan Airlines crashed near Mount Takamagahara, 100 km from Tokyo in the mountain area (Gunma Prefecture). Of the 520 people, only four women survived: 24-year-old Japan Airline employee Hiroko Yoshizaki, a 34-year-old passenger on the plane and her eight-year-old daughter Mikiko, and 12-year-old Keiko Kawakami, who was found sitting in a tree. All four lucky people sat in the center row of seats at the very tail of the plane. For the remaining 520 passengers and crew, this flight was the last. In terms of the number of victims, the crash of the Japanese Boeing 747 is second only to the crash in Tenerife in 1977, when two Boeings collided. No other ship has ever lost so many people. August 16, 1987 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft, while taking off from Metro airport, the plane lost control and first hit power lines located 800 meters from the runway with its left wing, then the roof of a car rental point, after which it crashed to the ground.
There were 155 people on board. 4-year-old Cecelia Sichan was found by rescuers in her chair, a few meters from the bodies of her parents and 6-year-old brother. Until now, not a single specialist can explain how, and with the help of what miracle, she was able to survive. Possible cause This accident is considered the negligence of the pilot and crew in following the takeoff trajectory. July 28, 2002. at the Moscow airport "Sheremetyevo" collapsed immediately after takeoff IL 86, on board of which there were 16 people: four pilots, 10 flight attendants and two engineers. 200 m after the aircraft took off from the ground, there was a loss of engine power, the aircraft fell on left wing and collapsed, followed by an explosion.
Only two flight attendants managed to survive: Tatiana Moiseeva and Arina Vinogradova. Vinogradova, some time after being discharged from the hospital and undergoing a rehabilitation course, returned to work, and Moiseeva decided not to tempt fate and stay on earth. June 30, 2009 Plane crashes off the coast of the Comoros A310 Yemeni airline Yemenia flying from the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, to the capital of Comoros, the city of Moroni. There were 153 people on board the A310. The only surviving passenger of the crashed liner was a twelve-year-old girl. Bahia Bakary with French citizenship. Upon hitting the water, she was literally thrown out of the plane. For several hours, the girl, practically unable to swim, without a life jacket and in complete darkness, tried to hold on to the wreckage of the plane so as not to drown. At first she tried to navigate by the voices of other passengers, but they soon subsided. When dawn broke, she realized that she was all alone in the center of an oil puddle on the surface of the water. Luckily, she managed to climb onto the large piece of rock and fall asleep despite being overtired and thirsty. At some point, she saw a ship on the horizon, but it sailed too far and she was not noticed. The crew of the private ship Sima Com 2 found Bakari only 13 hours after the plane crash. Another 7 hours later, she was on land, where she was sent to the hospital. The girl received numerous bruises, her collarbone was broken and her knees were burned. May 12, 2010 Airbus-330 Libyan airline Afriqiyah Airways, who arrived from Johannesburg (South Africa), crashed while landing in international airport Tripoli. In foggy conditions, the crew decided to go to the 2nd circle, but did not have time. There were 104 people on board. Only an eight-year-old boy was found among the wreckage, with both legs broken. He was pushed back by a chair, which may have springed the blow. September 6, 2011 Plane crash in Bolivia private airline crashed in the Amazonian jungle. As a result, it was initially believed that all 9 people on board were killed. After 3 days of searching, a miraculously surviving passenger was found - a 35-year-old Bolivian cosmetics seller, Minor Vidalyu. He escaped with head bruises and broken ribs. Minor Vidallo said that he was under the wreckage of the plane for more than 15 hours, and when he managed to get out, he went deep into the forest in search of people.
A plane crash survivor was found a few kilometers from the crash site. “We saw a man on the river bank giving us signals,” said Captain David Bustos, who led the rescue operation. “When we got closer, he knelt down and began to thank God.”

"I passed the ticket", "I did not have time for the flight", "I had a disturbing dream" ... After the crash passenger liners As a rule, at least one such story pops up.

Far fewer are those who escape from the gigantic iron grave. In the magazine Popular Mechanics, experts published data according to which the chances of life of passengers who choose a seat in the tail increase by 40%. Professor of Mathematical Modeling and Engineering at the University of Greenwich in London Ed Galea refutes these data, arguing that there is no "happy place" on board. All chairs have the same security.

The percentage of people who survived the crashes is minimal. And what happens to them next? How do they live after the second birth?

Kamil Bazhenov

In April 2012, a UTair passenger plane crashed near Tyumen. The liner, which was heading to Surgut, crashed 42 seconds after takeoff. This time was enough to gain a height of about 200 meters.

As it turned out later, the liner crashed due to the decision of the PIC not to carry out anti-icing treatment, although there was snow on the plane. Because of this, the crew could not recognize in time what was happening and take the plane out of a catastrophic situation. After the incident, UTair ordered all its aircraft to be treated with an anti-icing agent. Previously, this decision was taken by the captain.

As a result, 33 people died, 10 survived. One of those who escaped was Kamil Bazhenov. To a young man then was 27 years old. Went to a business meeting. It so happened that Kamil mixed up the queues and first stood at the check-in desk in Moscow. Only a few minutes later I found out that he was "in the other direction." I took my ticket 16A (in the tail section), at the right time I went to the plane.

Kamil later said: the bus, which was supposed to deliver passengers to the board, stood for quite a long time - late passengers hurried to it. But everyone had time, the plane took off without delay.

"We ask you to fasten your seat belts, remove the folding tables ..." Everything went according to plan, when suddenly, after a few seconds, shaking began on board, which only intensified. Kamil woke up already on the ground. He was able to raise his hand so that rescuers could see him. And then ... was conscious, but did not react to anything around. What happened, I couldn't remember.

He received ten fractures and tore four ligaments, and for several months he learned to walk again.

Before the disaster, I had a rather difficult period in my life. I work in harsh environments. Personally, it was not easy ... But I do not lose heart. The black bar will change to white. If this happened to a person, then you need to fight, - the young man said to the KP.

A little over a year after the tragedy, Kamil got married and became an entrepreneur. On his pages in social networks you will not find posts about planes, plane crashes. Only an electronic photo album reminds of what happened. New life", and that one in two photos. And the first entry after the disaster, dated May 30, 2012: "Many thanks to everyone for their support, it helped me a lot, especially when I was in intensive care."

Cecilia Sichan (Crocker)

A photo of little Cecilia Sichan in 1987 spread all over the world. A four-year-old girl miraculously survived a plane crash in Detroit on August 16. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 airliner of Northwest Airlines was unable to gain altitude - it flew right into the pole. The pilots were able to steer the aircraft away from the head-on collision, but the left wing was damaged. The plane went out of control, crashed onto a nearby highway and broke apart after sliding several meters.

As it turned out later, the accident occurred due to the fact that the crew could not control the speed and angle of takeoff. In addition, according to the Daily Mail, no signal was given that the plane was not ready for takeoff. The reasons for the failure of the electronics on board remained unclear. As a result of the crash, 153 people died - passengers and crew members, as well as two eyewitnesses to the crash.

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She got a small tattoo of an airplane on her left wrist as a reminder of the tragedy, which, however, she does not forget anyway.

The girl honestly admitted that she did not have any superpowers, she did not acquire a fear of flying, but she never intended to work as a flight attendant. Years later, the "main American orphan", as the media called her in the late 80s, tracked down fireman John Tie, who found her on the plane and urgently handed her over to the doctors. In 2012, he even walked at her wedding. Cecilia also decided to keep in touch with the families of the victims. The girl admitted in an interview that she sincerely tries to live a normal life. But one look in the mirror brings her back to her guilt that she was the one who survived that plane crash.

Juliana Koepke

The plane crash in Peru, which killed 92 people, occurred on December 24, 1971. A Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft was caught in a thunderstorm.

The only survivor was 17-year-old Juliana Margaret Koepke. Her father is the zoologist Hans Koepke and her mother is the ornithologist Maria Koepke. The girl studied in the city of Lima.

That day, Juliana and her mother were on their way to see their father, who was doing research in the South American jungle. Everyone planned to celebrate Christmas together.

There were about 20 minutes left before the end of the flight, when a strong turbulence began on board. The plane flew into the cloud. The girl's mother looked out the window and repeated that something was wrong.

Suddenly we entered a very heavy dark cloud. My mother was worried, but I was fine, I liked flying, ”the woman later said in an interview with the BBC.

The plane literally jumped: jumped up and fell down, parcels and luggage fell from the shelves, gifts, flowers and Christmas cakes flew around the board. The passengers started crying and screaming. Juliana didn't let go of her mother's hand.

My mom said, "It's over, it's over." These were last words that I heard from her,” the woman recalls.

After that, the plane went into a tailspin. Juliana lost consciousness. I woke up only, as it turned out, the next day, and my first thought was: "I survived the plane crash."

In several places, her collarbone was broken, in addition, ligaments in the knee joint were torn. But at that moment she did not feel these injuries - the girl was in a state of passion. She knew she needed to get out quickly.

Before the crash, I spent a year and a half with my parents at a research station just 30 miles from the crash site. I learned a lot about life in the rainforest. I heard the search planes circling, but I couldn't see them because of the dense forest,” she recalls.

The girl lost her glasses and could hardly see anything. Juliana was very afraid to stumble upon poisonous snakes that camouflage themselves among the leaves. During the day she came to a small stream and went downstream. After all, this meant that somewhere it flows into the river. And where the river - most likely, there is a civilization.

Not far from the crash site, she found a bag of Christmas candy.

The girl walked for about 10 days. She was paralyzed with a sense of panic, because on the way at first she came across the torn bodies of passengers. She peered into the faces of people with one simple question: is there her mother among them? And, realizing that these were other people, she experienced both relief and shame.

The 17-year-old girl had many wounds, where at some point the larvae started up. She pulled them out with her hands, barely restraining herself from crying out in pain.

At some point, I heard the voices of several men. It was like the voices of angels. When they saw me, they became alarmed and stopped talking. They thought I was some sort of water goddess, a figure from local legend,” recalls Juliana.

As a result, the teenager managed to explain who she is and what happened. During the day, local residents provided assistance on their own. And a day later they managed to get to the rescuers.

The girl's mother was found a little more than two weeks after the plane crash. It turned out that she did not die, but received many injuries. For several days, doctors tried to bring her back to life, but in the end the woman died.

Juliana's fall into the jungle." She agreed to give several interviews. A decade later, in 2011, she herself wrote a book, the title of which translates as "When I fell from the sky."

Juliana, as she dreamed, became a mammalologist (a branch of zoology that studies mammals). She admitted that she was not afraid to fly, but did not like it. And he is still looking for an answer to a simple question: why do plane crashes happen?

Ever since this happened to me, I've been following plane crashes. It is very important for me to know why they happen. I need an explanation. Our fall was never explained,” she says.

The only fear that remained for the rest of her life is that when she enters the turbulence zone, her palms sweat and squeezes her heart.

Vesna Vulovich

The stewardess got into the Guinness Book of Records as a survivor after a fall from a height of more than 10 thousand meters.

The plane crash that then hit the stewardess of Yugoslav Airlines occurred on January 26, 1972. On board the plane, which was heading from Copenhagen to Zagreb, there were 28 people. The flight took place in normal mode, the liner was in the air for about an hour, when it began to collapse: the bow with the cockpit separated from the main body.

Experts concluded that an explosive device went off on board. 10 days after the crash state security Czechoslovakia presented fragments of an alarm clock, which was identified as part of an explosive mechanism. The names of the likely terrorists were established, but they were never found.

22-year-old stewardess Vesna Vulovich does not remember anything about the fatal flight. The last thing that remains in my memory is how the cleaning lady cleans the side of the aircraft. A couple of hours later, she was found on one of the wreckage of this same aircraft.

A loud explosion, very bright light and unbearable cold - that's all I remember about that disaster, - she said in an interview with Interlocutor. - I was stumbled upon by a local resident, German Bruno. I felt for a pulse, realized that my spine was broken, so I did not move my body, but immediately called for help.

As it turned out, she had many fractures and memory loss. Waking up in the hospital, Vesna could not remember what had happened. And also where is she, why there are no beloved dogs and cats nearby, and for what reason the parents with tears in their eyes.

I broke my left arm and left leg, three vertebrae (one of them was simply crushed), I broke my skull in several places,” the former flight attendant said in a comment to AiF.

Like others who survived plane crashes, Vesna felt a sense of guilt upon realizing what had happened. She could not understand why she survived, and colleagues and passengers died. And why was she saved?

Yugoslav Airlines "as a flight attendant. The airline did not accept the arguments that "it does not shoot twice into the same funnel" and that therefore "she is the guarantor of flight safety." Vulovich was not allowed to work on board, but found work in the office. She worked at the airline until retirement There were no children.

The woman died at her home in Belgrade in December 2016.

Larisa Savitskaya

Another record holder for "landing height without a parachute" is 20-year-old Larisa. She just got married and was returning from her honeymoon with her husband on an An-24 plane from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk. Their plane was at an altitude of 5220 meters when a Tu-16 military bomber crashed into it at full speed. The wreckage scattered for several kilometers. The girl tightly clung to the remnants of the chair and flew down.

Izvestia".

The girl did not count on salvation. The only thing that beat in my head was the desire to die without pain. But by some miracle, she, having crashed into a tree, survived. Upon impact, all her teeth were knocked out, Larisa injured her spine in five places, broke her arm, ribs, and legs.

For three days she could not even open her eyes. And when I woke up, the first thing I saw was the body of my husband.

The state of shock was such that I did not feel pain. I could even walk. When the rescuers found me, they could not utter anything except “mu-mu”. I understand them. For three days to remove pieces of bodies from trees, and then suddenly see a living person, the woman recalled.

By that time, all the passengers of both aircraft declared dead. Larisa's relatives ordered a coffin and even, as she admitted, dug a grave. Months spent in hospitals, trips to the chiropractor, constant procedures, long recovery times. Larisa still has pain intensification in spring and autumn. She literally scratched out her own right to a normal life.

Later, in an interview, she recalled that shortly before the fatal departure, she watched the film "Miracles Still Happen", which tells the story of Juliana Koepke. To this day, he doesn't think it was an omen.

I didn't fall into religion, or drunkenness, or depression. I love life. But sometimes, half-jokingly, half-seriously, I say: "I am God's favorite girl." I live as I lived, she said.

In 1985, Savitskaya gave birth to a son. Two months after giving birth, her mother died in a road accident. Larisa lived with her child on the allowance of a single mother, which at that time was 32 rubles. She reprinted texts, sold books. After perestroika, she opened a company selling shoes. Then she went to the Borjomi office. In the 90s, she was paralyzed - the injuries received during the fall affected her. However, Larisa was able to recover from this and even got a job as an office manager in a real estate company.

She tries not to remember the disaster. But any plane crash that occurs in the world seems to return her to the scene of the tragedy. She also celebrates August 24th. Like a second birthday.

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.

The second girl from row 41 died from injuries sustained after she was dragged along runway 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 carry hundreds of people 10 times faster than they could travel in a car, which in turn is 10 times faster than a human can travel on foot.

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 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 at 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 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, as in Korean aircraft, the rear part 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 also thrown out of 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. The most famous case was that of 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.