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The Sole Survivor Policy or United States Department of Defense Directive 1315.15 "Special Separation Policies for Survivorship" describes a set of regulations in the United States military, partially stipulated by law, that are designed to protect members of a family from the draft during peacetime or wartime if they have already lost family members to military service.
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured. [3] [4]
People who were the sole survivor of an incident such as a military action, shipwreck, plane crash or massacre. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Helping lead to the adoption of the Sole Survivor Policy in National Military Establishment regulations in 1948 The Borgstrom brothers were four American siblings, including twin brothers, killed over a six-month period during World War II .
The flight's first officer, the crash's only survivor, was later featured in a film about sole survivors of plane crashes. The opening skit of the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards – which aired on the same night as the plane crash – featured host Conan O'Brien getting into a plane crash similar to the TV show Lost. The skit was criticized and ...
Sole Survivor, a 1997 novel by Dean Koontz "Sole Survivor" (Asia song) "Sole Survivor" (Helloween song) "Sole Survivor", a song by Blue Öyster Cult from Fire of Unknown Origin; Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor, a computer game in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian series; The player character in Fallout 4 is canonically referred to as the Sole ...
The sole survivor was a 9-year-old Dutch boy, Ruben van Assouw, from Tilburg, [6] [25] [26] who was returning from a safari with his parents and brother (all of whom died in the accident). [ 6 ] [ 27 ] He was taken to Sabia'a Hospital, 30 kilometres (19 mi; 16 nmi) south-east of Tripoli and later transferred to Al-Khadhra Hospital, Tripoli ...
Officially, it was an accident due to mechanical problems. However, some claim that it was sabotage. Newspaper journalist Nestor Mata, the sole survivor in the crash, lived to tell the tale of what happened. He later died on April 12, 2018.