BOAC Flight 712 - Passengers

Passengers

The aircraft was carrying 116 passengers and eleven crew. Five people were killed in the accident, including stewardess Barbara Jane Harrison and four passengers.

One of the survivors was the pop singer Mark Wynter, who was travelling to Australia for his wedding to Janeece Corlass.

Another notable survivor was Katriel Katz, Israeli Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Katz had been expelled from the Soviet Union by Andrei Gromyko when it became clear that the Six-Day War would happen. Gromyko is said to have told Katz not to let his emotions get the better of him, advice he was to ignore in the emergency that was to befall him. During the evacuation from the aircraft, Katz was the only passenger to escape through the forward port door, despite the efforts of Hutchinson and Unwin to stop him using that door. The two flight crew were almost carried out through the door by Katz, who was a large man. Katz was seriously injured jumping from the doorway. He was taken to Hillingdon Hospital, where it was initially feared that he would become the sixth victim of Flight 712. Katz recovered after a few days. He died in 1988 aged 80.