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El Al Flight 402 was an international passenger flight from London to Tel Aviv via Vienna and Istanbul. On 27 July 1955, the flight, operated by a Lockheed Constellation registered as 4X-AKC, strayed into then-Communist Bulgarian airspace and was attacked by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters, crashing near Petrich. All 7 crew and 51 passengers on board the airliner were killed.
A memorial was erected at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv, where the victims were laid to rest. A moshav in the Lakhish region, Nir Ḥen, was named in their memory (ח״ן is 58 in Hebrew numerals).
Passengers
- Rella (Rachel) Avram, 47 [American]
- Ora Cohen, 28 [American]
- Anne Sara Hahn, 52 [American]
- Rabbi Dr. Pincus Ingberman, 33–35 [American]
- Mary (Manya) Katz, 50 [American]
- Anne Katz, 10 [American]
- Avram M. Mann, 60–61 [American]
- Rene Sacks, 18 [American]
- Deborah Sacks, 16 [American]
- Anne B. Sacks, 53 [American]
- Toby Schaeffer, 45-52 [American]
- Zahava Sheinbaum, 35 [American]
- Sigmund (Shlomo) Wieselman, 50 [Austrian]
- Jack Brass, 38 [British]
- Charles Douglas Foxworthy-Windsor, 15 [British]
- Herbert Laster, 30 [British]
- Max S. Altman [Canadian]
- Sarah Rivka Maydeck, 44 [Canadian]
- Ann (Chana) Adel Maydeck, 15 [Canadian]
- Yaffa Maydeck, 10 [Canadian]
- Renée Bloch, 31 [French]
- Newach Kopelowicz [French]
- Szimon Korenberg, 60 [French]
- Rosalia Korenberg, 66 [French]
- Jacqueline Papo or Yvonne Papo [French]
- Hélène Zlotowski, 45 [French]
- Isaac Salzmann, 62 [German]
- Private, 35–43 [German]
- Armin Zweigenhaft, 9 [German]
- Luise-Regina Zweigenhaft, 7 [German]
- Hinda Beila Brückel, 51 [Israeli]
- Joseph Ettedgui, 20 [Israeli]
- Doctor Mordechai Felixbrodt [Israeli]
- Hela (Helena) Fogel, 41 [Israeli]
- Fanny Fuhrman [Israeli]
- Haran Bar-Dor, 32 [Israeli]
- Betty Gruber [Israeli]
- Private / Yitzchak Hameiri, 39–40 [Israeli]
- Yosef Shachar, 23–24 [Israeli]
- Judith Tomaschoff, 14 [Israeli]
- Sarah Zeit, 32 [Israeli]
- Golda Potasznik, 43 [Polish]
- Schmuel Brender, 56 [Russian]
- Sara Brender [Russian]
- Frieda Dorfman, 53 [Russian]
- Isaac Kofler, 67 [Russian]
- Mike Cohen, 35 [South African]
- Flora Kaplan, 25–26 [South African]
- Rhoda Valerie Marks, 28 [South African]
- Margit Lettström-Morgan, 26–37 [Swedish-British]
- Maurice Levi Iossifof, 26–34 [stateless]
Crew
- Stanley Reginald Hinks, 35 [British]
- Albert Alkhadaff, 26–29 [Israeli]
- Sarah Acharkan, 27–28 [Israeli]
- Pini (Pinchas) Ben Porat, 40 [Israeli]
- Sidney Cyril Chalmers, 33–34 [South African]
- Raphael Rolf Goldmann, 26 [Israeli]
- Leon Eliezer Tisser, 33 [Israeli]
External links
- Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak (1955–57). Letters of condolence. Israel State Archives. 184 pages.
- הפלת מטוס אל־על בבולגריה. Israel State Archives. 1955–67. 540 pages.
- https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-el-al-plane-crash-you-never-hea...