Miraculously surviving people in a plane crash. What do those who survived the plane crash remember, and why do they feel guilty for the rest of their lives? The most difficult situations
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 the north coast of the island of Grand Comore (Comoros) on June 30, 2009. The remaining 152 people on board were killed. Bakary, who could barely swim and had no 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 flew with her from Paris for summer holidays in the Comoros, died in a 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 several 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.
Now it is already possible to take stock of the Colombian plane crash that occurred on November 29: of the 81 people on board, only six survived. Some of the passengers of the crashed plane were footballers of the Brazilian club Chapecoense. Of the entire team, only one player survived - defender Alan Ruschel. Surely, when he recovers, he will tell a lot about that fateful flight - as those who were lucky enough not to die in other plane crashes have already done. We have collected several monologues of survivors: what they remember about the crash, what they thought at that moment and why they feel guilty.
10 days in the jungle
risk.ruJuliana Koepcke is the only survivor of the 92 passengers after the plane crash in December 1971. Their Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft was caught in a thundercloud and lightning damaged its wing. At the time of the disaster, Juliana was 17 years old.
My father Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke was a famous zoologist. That year he was doing research in Peru, in the Amazon jungle. My mother and I flew to him from Lima to celebrate Christmas together. Almost at the very end of the flight, when there were 20 minutes left before landing, the plane fell into a terrible thundercloud, it began to shake violently. Mom got nervous: "I don't like it." I, without looking up, looked out the porthole, beyond which bright lightning torn the darkness, and saw how the right wing caught fire. Mom's last words: "Now it's over." What followed happened very quickly. The plane banked steeply, began to fall and collapse. I still have incredibly loud screams of people in my ears. Strapped to the chair, I quickly flew down somewhere. The wind whistled in my ears. The seat belts hit hard in my stomach. I fell headfirst. Perhaps the most inexplicable thing is that at that moment I was not afraid. Maybe I just didn't have time to be scared? Flying through the clouds, I saw the forest below. My last thought is that the forest looks like broccoli. Then, apparently, I lost consciousness. The plane crash happened around 1:30 am. When I woke up, the hands of my watch, which, oddly enough, walked, showed about nine. It was light. My head and eyes hurt very badly (then the doctors explained to me that at the time of the accident, due to the difference in pressure inside and outside the plane, the eye capillaries burst). I sat still in the same chair, saw a little forest and a little sky. It dawned on me that I survived the plane crash, remembered my mother and lost consciousness again. Then she woke up again. This happened several times. And every time I tried to free myself from the seat to which I was fastened. When I finally succeeded, it began to rain heavily. I forced myself to get up - the body was like cotton wool. With great difficulty, she got to her knees. His eyes turned black again. It must have been half a day before I finally managed to get up. The rain had stopped by then. I started screaming, calling for my mother, hoping that she was also alive. But no one responded.
For 9 days, the seriously wounded Juliana made her way through the jungle to people on her own: the knowledge received from her father helped her survive. Having reached one of the boats tied to the shore along the river, she fell exhausted, and after that she was found by local fishermen. The girl was brought to the nearest village, where her wounds were treated, then to the nearest village, and only then they were transported on a small plane to Pucallpa, where she met with her father. Later it became known that 14 passengers survived the moment of the plane crash, but they all later died from their injuries.
Fell from the sky for eight minutes
Larisa Savitskaya was twice included in the Russian Guinness Book of Records: as a person who survived a fall from a height of 5220 meters, and as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage in a plane crash - 75 rubles. On August 24, 1981, together with her husband Vladimir, they were returning from honeymoon trip on board the An-24PB from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk. Their plane at an altitude of 5220 meters was rammed from above by a Tu-16 military bomber: as it turned out later, military and civilian dispatchers incorrectly coordinated the movement of both aircraft in space. From the collision, the An-24 lost wings with fuel tanks and the top of the fuselage. The remaining part during the fall broke several times, and part of the hull, together with Savitskaya, planned for a birch grove. During the fall, the girl held on to the seat, losing consciousness several times. As it turned out later, the fall of Savitskaya, along with the wreckage of the aircraft, lasted approximately eight minutes.
Sometimes they say that in one moment the whole life can fly before your eyes. In eight minutes, you probably won't see anything like that. But I didn't have anything like that. In those moments, I mentally whispered to my husband about how scared I was to die alone. The first thing I saw when I woke up on the ground was him, dead, sitting in a chair across from me. At that moment he seemed to say goodbye to me.
Despite many terrible injuries, Savitskaya was able to move around. She built herself a shelter out of aircraft debris, covered herself with seat covers and plastic bags. Rescue planes, which she waved from below, mistook her for one of the geologists, whose camp was nearby. The girl spent three days in the taiga before she was found. Since the double plane crash in the Soviet Union was immediately classified, there was not a single news about the crash at that time. Savitskaya's ward was guarded by people in civilian clothes, and her mother was "advised to keep quiet." For the first time, Soviet Sport wrote about Savitskaya, but the article said that she fell from a height of five kilometers during a test of a home-made aircraft. Savitskaya was never given a disability, despite the fact that for some time she could not even stand on her feet, and the physical damage was compensated with an amount of 75 rubles. Despite the difficulties, Larisa recovered and even gave birth to a son.
"Why me?"
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The highest height from which a person has ever fallen and remained alive is 10,160 meters. This person is Vesna Vulovic, a Yugoslav airline stewardess. McDonnell Douglas DC-9- 32. On January 26, 1972, the plane exploded in the air (presumably it was a Yugoslav nationalist bomb). Vesna, a 22-year-old girl, is the only survivor of that disaster. She was thrown out of the plane by an explosive wave, and she miraculously survived. The girl was also lucky that the peasant Bruno Honke, who found her first, was able to give her the first medical care before the rescuers arrive. Once in the hospital, Vesna fell into a coma. And as soon as she got out of it, she asked for a smoke.
I didn't have any premonitions. As if I knew in advance that I would survive. I don't remember how I fell. Later they told me that the inhabitants of the place where the wreckage of the plane, the corpses and I fell, heard my cries: “Help me, Lord, help me!” They went to the voice and they found me. At that time, I had already lost four liters of blood. All crew members and passengers suffered a ruptured lung while still in the air, and none of them could survive. They all died before they hit the ground. When I found out that everyone died, and I remained alive, I wanted to die, I felt guilty: why am I alive? For 31 years I did not remember anything about the month I had lived after the accident, and about my problems: paralysis, broken arms, legs, fingers. All this had to be endured. I had to get up. And live well. I think miracles do exist.
“I remember what those children were wearing”
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Alexandra Kargapolova is one of the five lucky survivors of the Tu-134 plane crash near Petrozavodsk on June 21, 2011. While landing, the pilots overshot (that night there was very poor visibility), hitting a 50-meter pine tree with their wing. The plane caught fire, went through the forest and crashed, breaking in half. Alexandra recalls that initially they were supposed to fly from Moscow to Petrozavodsk on a Bombardier plane, and only at the landing they were told that they would fly on a Tu-134. Even then, the girl was visited by an unpleasant premonition, but she decided to drive him away from her.
If I had known about this in advance, I would have gone by train ... I flew from Moscow to Karelia, home - to my son and parents. Due to the change of board, passengers began to sit down in all directions. I sat right behind the business class, on the left in front of the wing. Everything was calm, but at some point I realized that we were falling. At that moment, there was silence in the salon. No screams, no panic. Only scared faces. Many at this moment, thank God, slept. I was saved by an unfastened seat belt - I was thrown out of the plane from the impact. I fell on the plowed ground - as if a duvet, as they say, had been laid. Injuries I had, compared with the scale of the disaster, are minimal. I was very lucky. After what happened, it was very difficult to realize that I was alive, but the children who were sitting next to me were not. I don't remember their faces, but I remember how they were dressed. I had a marriage, a child, something in life is built. And the children at the time of their death still had none of this. Why? For the first few months, this thought gnawed at me...
- On average, the possibility of a passenger getting into a plane crash is 1:10,000,000 departures, that is, the risk is minimal.
- There are statistics that show that during a disaster, a much smaller number of passengers are registered on a fatal flight than usual. This allows some mystics to believe that some people are capable of sensing danger.
- Every 2-3 seconds a plane lands or takes off in the world. Around the world, more than 3 million people.
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 high-altitude passenger planes. 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, 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. 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 director Werner Herzog was also supposed to be on that flight and, after the tragedy, visited the crash site to film his documentary film 2000 Wings of Hope.
Nine-year-old Colombian Erica Delgado survived a similar fall in 1995, when her mother pushed her out of a burning plane that crashed 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.
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This happens extremely rarely, but even in serious plane crashes, people survive. Sometimes with severe physical and mental consequences, sometimes vice versa - with the desire to live and even continue working on board the aircraft. How these people were able to escape, what they did after they woke up, and what trials fell to their lot - read in our article. 
Through the jungle with a bag of candy
This plane crash happened almost 50 years ago, in December 1971. There were 92 people on board the LANSA plane. At some point, lightning struck the right wing of the ship and caused a fire in the fuel tank. Because of this, the wing was torn off, the plane lost control and fell from a height of 3000 meters into a forest in the region of Peru. 17-year-old passenger Juliana Margaret Koepke was the only survivor.For 10 days, the girl was looking for help and went to people through the jungle. Not far from the crash site, a survivor found a bag of candy that helped her get through those difficult days on the road. There were deep cut wounds on her body, in addition, the girl's collarbone was broken. Juliana also lost her glasses and could not see well, so she was afraid to stumble upon snakes. At some point, larvae began to appear in the wounds of the girl, which she had to pull out through severe pain on her own.
On the tenth day, Koepke found a boat moored on the river. Nearby, she saw a hut built to shelter a boat engine, in which she discovered gasoline. Juliana treated their wounds and pulled out about 30 larvae from them. Being very weak, she fell asleep on the ground near the engine. As a result, the victim was found by the inhabitants of the nearest village. 
The girl's mother was an ornithologist, and her father was a biologist. Juliana survived thanks to the knowledge she received from her dad. “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, ”the heroine said after.
Juliana became a zoologist, as she dreamed. She admitted that after the disaster, she follows the accidents and is looking for an explanation of why they happen. Koepke's story was filmed and released under the title Miracles Still Happen.
Air hostess, survivor of the terrorist attack
Flight attendant Vesna Vulovich survived a plane crash that happened in January 1972. The DC-9-32 Jugoslovenski Aerotransport was flying from Stockholm to Belgrade. An hour after departure, an explosion thundered on board, and the ship collapsed. Its fragments fell near one of the villages in Czechoslovakia. As it turned out later, there was an explosive device on board, which, presumably, was left by members of a terrorist organization.
The 22-year-old flight attendant was the only one left alive after the explosion on the plane, in total there were 28 people on board. Note that the girl was not supposed to fly on this flight, she was mistakenly assigned to it instead of another flight attendant with a similar name. On the day of the incident, Vesna had not yet graduated and was a trainee.
“The person who was in charge of the flight lists made a mistake. Me and another stewardess were named Vesna. And he put “Vesna Vulovich” instead of “Vesna Nikolic”, an accidental mistake. After the plane crash, the flight attendant Nikolic quit: she never flew again in her life, ”said the survivor. 
The villagers found the girl at the crash site and provided first aid. The first thing Vulovich asked after regaining consciousness was to smoke. The flight attendant fell from a height of more than 10,000 meters, but survived, according to her, due to low pressure and loss of consciousness at the time of the incident.
Vulovich did not remember the details of the plane crash, so she wanted to continue working as a flight attendant after her recovery, but she was given an office position. In 1985, the name of the flight attendant was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the holder of the world record for the height of the survivors of a free fall without a parachute.
Saved an airplane seat
In August 1981, an An-24RV aircraft heading for Blagoveshchensk collided with a Tu-16K military bomber. There were 38 people on board the ship, among whom were student Larisa Savitskaya and her husband, they were returning from their honeymoon. At the time of the incident, the girl was sleeping, but woke up from a strong blow and cold.
After breaking the fuselage in front of her seat, Savitskaya was thrown into the aisle. She made her way to the nearest chair, sat down in it, and leaned back. Later, the girl shared that at the time of the incident she remembered a frame from the film “Miracles Still Happen”, where the heroine acted in a similar way.
The tail of the aircraft landed on a birch forest, which allowed to soften the blow. Two days after the disaster, the student was found by rescuers. The girl injured her spine, received a concussion and fractures. Larisa also lost almost all her teeth, but she was in a state of shock and did not feel pain. 
In total, there were 32 people on board the aircraft, among whom all died, except for Savitskaya. Later, the survivor learned that after the plane crash, graves were already prepared for her and her husband. “I didn’t hit any religion, or drunkenness, or depression. I love life. But sometimes, half-jokingly, half-seriously, I say: “I am God’s favorite girl,” Savitskaya said after.
The girl was included in the Russian Guinness Book of Records as a survivor after a fall from the maximum height (5200 meters) and as having received the minimum amount of compensation - 75 rubles.
“I think about what happened every day”
Cecilia Sichan, who at the time of the incident was only 4 years old, was the only survivor of a plane crash on August 16, 1987. Airliner McDonnell Douglas MD-82 immediately after departure from Detroit could not gain altitude, hit a lamppost and fell on the road. In total, more than 150 people died in the disaster.
The mother covered Cecilia with herself at the time of the accident, but the girl herself does not remember anything about the incident. The survivor spent 7 weeks in the hospital, after which her uncle and aunt took her to their place. For a long time, Sichan, who lost her parents and brother, was hiding from the press and decided to talk about what happened only in 2013. The girl shared that she constantly blamed herself for the fact that she survived, and not someone else.
“I think about what happened every day. It's hard not to think about it when I look in the mirror. I have scars on my arms and legs, on my forehead,” Sichan said.
The girl made a tattoo with an airplane on her left arm in memory of the disaster. Years later, Xichang found a firefighter who found her on the plane and handed her over to the medics. In 2012, she invited him to the wedding. The girl also tries to keep in touch with the families of the victims. 
"I see this number everywhere"
30 years ago, on July 19, 1989, a United Airlines plane flew from Denver to Chicago. An hour later, his tail engine collapsed. The crew was able to land the ship at the airport in Sud City, but the plane hit the runway with its right wing and crashed. Of the nearly 300 people on board, 112 died. Flight attendant Susan White, who worked on Flight 232, managed to survive. She still remembers that day.“I see this number (232) everywhere. I wake up in the middle of the night and see this number, during the day I look at my phone at 2:32. I'm going to text my mom and it's 2:32 on the clock," White said. 
Specialists told White that she was one of about 8 people in the back seat of the plane who survived the crash. To this day, the woman keeps in touch with other survivors and families of the victims. And until now, she continues to work as a flight attendant.
“Many people can’t believe that I returned to work, they say that if I were in my place, they would quit. But I was so young at the time, I was 25 and I loved my job. I decided, “If I let this win me over, then I will let a lot of other things win me over.” So I took the liberty of going back. And I'm glad I did. I feel like I have a purpose and I'm so grateful to be alive," White shared. 
A whole day in the ocean with sharks
On June 30, 2009, Frenchwoman Baia Bakari flew to Comoros to visit her grandparents with her mother. In total, there were 152 people on board the Airbus A310. A few minutes before landing, the plane crashed into the ocean. No one survived except Baya.A 13-year-old girl grabbed a piece of the fuselage and spent about 9-10 hours in the Mozambique Channel, which is teeming with sharks. After that, one of the fishermen saved her and took her to a local hospital. On July 2, the girl was taken to Paris, and on the 27th she was discharged from the medical facility. 
Experts believe that Baya survived due to the fact that she was thrown out of the plane through the resulting crack. According to the girl's father, Baya is rather timid, and he would never have thought that she could save herself in such an emergency.
“Dad, I saw the plane go under water. It was dark and I couldn't see anything. Also, I'm not a good swimmer, so I grabbed onto something and held on. I don’t even know what it was,” the girl told her father after the disaster.
In January 2010, Bakary published her autobiography, Survivor. In May of the same year, information appeared that Steven Spielberg offered her to acquire the film rights to the book, but she refused. 
Salvation is like a second birth
This plane crash happened on April 2, 2012. The UTair airliner was flying from Tyumen to Surgut, but after almost 2 minutes it fell to the ground. Of the 43 people on board, 10 survived. One of them was 27-year-old Kamil Bazhenov. The man flew to Surgut on a business trip.Initially, Kamil mixed up the queues at the check-in counter, for some time he stood at the check-in for a flight to Moscow. Later, the man realized that he was mistaken, and went the other way. When his turn came, Kamil got a place in the tail section of the ship. 
The man woke up already on the ground, he does not remember the details of the disaster. According to him, he could only move with one arm. Kamil picked her up and called for the help of rescuers who were already working on the spot. The victim was taken to the hospital, where he woke up only after 6 days.
According to the man, he did not become afraid of heights and was going to jump with a parachute immediately after recovery. He considers April 2 his second birthday. “I want this to not happen in the future. But I don’t have such feelings that I want to take revenge on someone so that he sits in prison and suffers. I just want people to be more responsible, ”Bazhenov shared. 
The baby who flew to her grandmother
The crash of the L-410 aircraft occurred on November 15, 2017, the ship crashed while landing in the village of Nelkan. There were 7 people on board, of which only Jasmine Leontieva survived, who at that time was 3.5 years old. The baby flew to visit her grandmother, accompanied by a local school teacher. According to one version, it was she who covered the girl with herself and helped her survive.
Jasmine was taken to the hospital in serious condition, but she survived the operation well and a year after the accident she was already dancing. “Jasmine feels good, she is a fidget with us - she doesn’t like to sleep during the day, runs all the time, dances - turns on the music channel on the TV and she doesn’t even need cartoons. True, if he gets too tired, he begins to limp, they say it should pass with time, ”said Jasmine’s grandmother a year after the plane crash. 
The fearlessness of a flight attendant
A West Wind Aviation aircraft was on a passenger flight from the United States to Canada on December 13, 2017. Shortly after takeoff, the ship lost altitude and crashed to the ground. All 25 people on board survived the crash, however one of them later died from his injuries in hospital. The investigation into the causes of the incident continues.26-year-old flight attendant Miranda Jenny Tate spoke about what was happening inside the plane at the time of the accident. She felt the ship trembling and the way its tail hit the ground.
“I heard how we cut down trees with our tails, passing through their crowns. Then I heard the screams of the passengers,” said Tate. 
The blow tore her seat out of the wall, the girl was thrown into the galley (cooking room). She got to her feet and was able to get out of the plane, and then began to help the others. “People were screaming. There were a lot of badly injured people there.” Three more men helped her to get the victims out of the plane.
Tate spent the next 6 weeks after the disaster on crutches and passed great amount physiotherapy sessions. “As soon as I got to the hospital, I screamed. I was so grateful to be alive." 
The CEO of West Wind Aviation called the flight attendant's efforts "heroic".
“She had a number of injuries that made it difficult for her to work, but she continued to perform her duties like a true professional,” said Mike Rodniuk.
Now back at university to study social work, Tate plans to continue as a flight attendant.
Despite these chilling stories, statistics show that the plane is enough safe view transport. By the way, throughout the existence civil aviation, which is almost 100 years old, fewer people died than die in a month in road accidents around the world. So don't be afraid to fly. If you're still stressed out, we've shown you how to increase your chances of surviving an aircraft crash.
