Victims of El Al Flight 402 Crash on July 27, 1955

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 / 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]
• Dr. Mordechai (Marcus) 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 / 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.