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survivors stories: 37 news summaries

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 Miracle Rescue Lifts Hopes 
 for 3,000 Trapped in Quake 

Hopes dim as new emergency teams arrive in Indonesia

Oct 2, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescue teams racing to find earthquake survivors in Indonesia pulled a young woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed school today, a rare glimmer of hope in the 2-day-old search. More than 1,000 people are reported dead, and difficult conditions in Padang are making it hard to reach... More »

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Indonesia • survivors • Padang • Sumatra • earthquake • disaster • rescue mission

 Survivor: Yemenia 
 Crash 'Like Being 
 Electrocuted' 

12-year-old sole survivor tells her story

Jul 5, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - When a Yemenia Airways jet fell out of the tempestuous sky into the sea, it felt "like being electrocuted," the sole survivor tells the Times of London. Bahia Bakari heard "a big sound" before being ejected from her plane, says the 12-year-old, and survived the hours after... More »

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plane crash • rescue • survivors • Yemenia Air • Bahia Bakari

Sole Survivor of '71 Jungle Crash Recounts Ordeal

Teen girl fell 2 miles from sky, trekked 10 days out of Amazon

Jul 3, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The miraculous survival of a sole passenger in the Indian Ocean plane crash this week brought back some painful memories for German librarian Juliane Koepke, CNN reports. Koepke, then 17, was the sole survivor of a 1971 crash in the Amazon rainforest. She plummeted more than two miles strapped to... More »

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plane crash • survivors • Amazon rainforest • survival

Teenage Air Crash Survivor Reunited With Family

French gov't flies 14-year-old to Paris

Jul 2, 09 4:34 AM CDT
(AP) - The young girl believed to be the only survivor of Tuesday's Indian Ocean plane crash flew back to Paris today, to the waiting arms of her father and siblings. Bahia Bakari, 14, returned to France alongside a government minister and other French officials. The other 151 people on Yemenia flight... More »

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France • plane crash • Paris • air disasters • survivors • disaster • Yemenia Air • Bahia Bakari

(Newser) - The 14-year-old girl who appears to be the lone survivor of yesterday’s Yemenia Airlines crash is recovering and in no danger, the BBC reports. Bahia Bakari escaped the crash with just a few cuts to her face and a fractured collarbone, though she can barely swim, and wasn't wearing... More »

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France • plane crash • Yemen • survivors • airline passengers • Yemenia Air • Bahia Bakari

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France: Yemenia Air Black Box Not Found

14-year-old girl is sole survivor of crash; plane failed 2007 inspection

Jul 1, 09 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French government has backed off reports that searchers located one of the black box flight recorders from Yemenia Air Flight 626, the BBC reports. The crash, in which a 14-year-old girl appears to be the sole survivor out of 151 passengers, occurred after the Airbus 310 had aborted its... More »

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France • airline industry • plane crash • airline safety • survivors • airline passengers • Yemenia Air

(Newser) - The last Titanic survivor has died at age 97, with no memory of the disaster but pleased by the attention it brought her, the BBC reports. Millvina Dean was 9 weeks old when the ship sank in 1912 and claimed her father's life, but spared her mother and brother. The... More »

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James Cameron • Leonardo DiCaprio • shipwreck • Titanic • survivors • Kate Winslet

Holocaust Tattoos Indelibly Link Fellow Survivors

Boys who stood side by side in Auschwitz meet again in Israel

Apr 19, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki don't remember crossing paths briefly in 1944, at perhaps the defining moment of their lives, but the ink on their arms leaves no doubt. Serial numbers the Nazis tattooed on each man's arm at Auschwitz are consecutive—Sholowicz is B-14594 and Sieradzki is B-14595. "... More »

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Israel • Holocaust • tattoos • concentration camp • Nazi • Auschwitz • survivors

(Newser) - Aftershocks in the Abruzzo region of Italy this morning, including one with a magnitude of 5.2, hampered ongoing rescue efforts and spooked refugees still in the area, Reuters reports. Officials closed off the center of L’Aquila, where the latest tremors continued to damage the hard-hit town. Though rescuers... More »

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Italy • death toll • survivors • earthquake • aftershock • search and rescue • L'Aquila • Abruzzo

 Funerals for Italy's 
 Quake Victims Begin 

No survivors were found today

Apr 8, 09 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first wave of funerals for Italy's earthquake victims took place today. In small towns throughout the ravaged Abruzzo region, thousands mourned the loss of their neighbors, BBC reports. A mass funeral will take place in the regional capital Friday, marking a national day of mourning. With aftershocks hampering rescue... More »

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Italy • natural disaster • survivors • funeral • earthquake • mourning

(Newser) - Rescuers today pulled a 20-year-old female student alive from the rubble of the earthquake in Italy, more than 42 hours after it struck, Sky News reports. "She's safe!" the woman's uncle told AP. She appears to be fine, except for a minor arm injury. As strong aftershocks rattled... More »

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Italy • natural disaster • survivors • Silvio Berlusconi • earthquake • search and rescue

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 Aftershocks Rock Italy 
 as Quake Toll Hits 207 

Strong aftershocks, weather hamper rescue efforts

Apr 7, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Strong aftershocks briefly halted the search for survivors and sent rescuers scrambling for safety in central Italy today, as the death toll from yesterday's earthquake hit 207. At least 1,500 people were injured and 17,000 were made homeless. One person was pulled alive from the rubble today after... More »

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Italy • natural disaster • survivors • earthquake • aftershock • search and rescue

(Newser) - The death toll in today’s Italian earthquake rose to more than 150 as rescue workers and volunteers continued the search for survivors, the Times reports. About 15,000 buildings were damaged, and residents are being warned to stay away until engineers can evaluate them. “We are working without... More »

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Italy • death toll • Red Cross • natural disaster • survivors • earthquake • search and rescue

 Japanese Man, 
 93, Survived 
 Both A-Bombs 

Was on business in Hiroshima; lived in Nagasaki

Mar 24, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - At 93, a Japanese man has become the first certified survivor of both atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the AP reports. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business Aug. 6, 1945, when the US bombed the city; after a night there, he returned home to Nagasaki, bombed Aug. 9.... More »

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Japan • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • atomic bomb • survivors

(Newser) - A helicopter ferrying workers to oil rigs off Canada’s Atlantic coast crashed into the ocean today, killing at least one, the Telegram of St. John’s, Newfoundland, reports. One passenger has been rescued, but 16 more remain lost. The chopper reported engine trouble prior to ditching about 40 miles... More »

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Canada • Atlantic Ocean • survivors • oil rig • offshore oil • helicopter crash • Newfoundland

 Amsterdam Survivors 
 Recount 'Miracle' 

Witnesses say plane seemed to lose power before slamming into field

Feb 26, 09 2:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Nothing seemed amiss on a Turkish jetliner heading for Amsterdam yesterday until the big plane suddenly "lurched downward" with a sickening pull and smoke poured into the cabin, a passenger told the Guardian. "People were panicking and then we hit the ground," said the traveler, whose daughter... More »

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plane crash • Amsterdam • survivors • Turkish Airlines • Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Buffalo Survivor Recounts 'Miracle' Escape From Home

Mother, daughter made it; father didn't

Feb 14, 09 9:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The plane slammed directly into their Buffalo home, but somehow Karen Wielinski and her daughter survived. “I heard a noise—planes do go over our house, but this just sounded very different,” Wielinski, 53, told WBEN radio. “The next thing I knew, the ceiling was on me.... More »

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New York • plane crash • survivors • Continental Airlines • Buffalo

Flight 1549 Passengers
Laud Pilot, Crew

Survivors embrace heroes at '60 Minutes' taping

Feb 3, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 thanked and embraced hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger at a meeting in Charlotte, NC, the Charlotte Observer reports. As part of a 60 Minutes episode on the crash, about 50 of the passengers and their families met the crew of Flight 1549. “There... More »

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plane crash • pilot • survivors • hero • airline passengers • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549 • Hudson crash

 How to Survive the Apocalypse 

Guardian explains how to kill pheasants, build shelter

Feb 1, 09 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Economic ruin, climate change, war—the apocalypse can’t be far off, right? Movies tell us that to survive the end of days we need “to sit in desirable country mansions, eat tinned tomatoes, develop post-traumatic psychosis and shoot each other,” Tanya Gold writes in the Guardian, noting... More »

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Canada • survivors • apocalypse • meltdown • armageddon • Election 2012

 Hudson Survivors Relive Nightmare, Relish Survival

Passengers amazed to still be alive cope with crash's emotional aftermath

Jan 24, 09 3:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Passengers who cheated death in the Hudson River crash are seeing the world through a fresh set of eyes, they tell the AP. They are celebrating the simple joy of still being alive, but many are also haunted by recurring nightmares. Experts say such reactions are normal after such an... More »

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US Airways • plane crash • Hudson River • survivors • airline passengers • trauma • Flight 1549 • Hudson crash

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