How many people were on-board the plane that had Francis Charig as a passenger when it crashed in 2008 ?
152 people
Title: Albatros L 76
Passage: The Albatros L 76 Aeolus was a military reconnaissance aircraft built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke in 1927.  The plane had wooden dual-spar wings with plywood skins supported by N-type struts and a fabric-covered fuselage made of welded steel tubing.  The aircraft was used for testing, as well as the training of the Soviet Air Force.  It was difficult to fly, and killed many people, including Emil Thuy, who crashed near Smolensk on June 11, 1930, and Paul Jeschonnek, who crashed near Berlin on June 13, 1929.  As a result, it had to be improved, leading to the production of the Albatros L 77v, designed by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke.
Title: Seizō Yasunori
Passage: Sub Lieutenant Seizō Yasunori (安則 盛三 , Yasunori Seizō , died May 11, 1945) was a Japanese student who joined the Imperial Japanese Navy, and on May 11, 1945 was ordered to fly a kamikaze mission during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II.  Kamikaze pilots were generally 18–20 years old, poorly trained, and flew poorly maintained aircraft.  As leader of the Navy's Kamikaze Corps 7th Showa Special Attack Squadron, he led a group of four young men to attack US Navy ships.  Yasunori led a group of six planes which departed Kanoya Air Base between 0640 and 0653 on May 11, 1945.  Yasunori dropped a 550-lb bomb and then crashed his A6M Zero into the aft portion of the flight deck of the USS "Bunker Hill" , along with his wingman, Kiyoshi Ogawa.  He and his wingman killed 393 Americans; the most devastating suicide attack in the Pacific War and wounded an additional 264.  Three-hundred fifty-two of the dead were buried at sea the next day.  The bomb tore a hole in the port side of the ship and his plane crashed onto the flight deck.  The ensuing explosion destroyed many of the planes on the deck.  His plane dragged another plane overboard.  His wingman, Kiyoshi Ogawa, crashed into the ship a few seconds later.  A third plane crashed into the sea before reaching the ship.  The fate of the remaining three planes is unknown.  His story is told in "Danger's Hour", published by Simon & Schuster on Veteran's Day, 2008.
Title: Francis Charig
Passage: Francis Charig (born 23 November 1960 in Hurst Green, Oxted, England) is the British Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BetWiz Sports and is also a board director of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon plc, a Japan-focussed investment trust.  He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon and subsequently at the University of Exeter where he read Political Science.  He was Head of the Trading Systems Business Unit at the London Stock Exchange, co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Tao Group, CEO of Antix Labs, Chairman of the Open Contents Platform Association in Tokyo.  In January 2008 he was a passenger on British Airways Flight 38 that crashed at Heathrow but he escaped unharmed.  His father was the late palaeontologist Alan J. Charig.
Title: Advance Airlines Flight 4210
Passage: Advance Airlines Flight DR4210 was a scheduled passenger flight which crashed at Sydney Airport on 21 February 1980, killing all 13 people on board the Advance Airlines Beech Beechcraft King Air 200.  After taking off on runway 25 for a scheduled flight the aircraft's left (port) engine failed and the pilot requested an emergency landing on runway 34.  The plane crashed into the sea wall while attempting the emergency landing.  The accident caused the greatest number of fatalities in a civil aircraft crash in Australia since MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750, a Vickers Viscount that crashed near Port Hedland in Western Australia on 31 December 1968 killing all 26 on board.
Title: 2002 El Ayyat railway accident
Passage: The El Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 20 February 2002 in an eleven-carriage passenger train travelling from Cairo to Luxor.  A cooking gas cylinder exploded in the fifth carriage, creating a fire which engulfed seven third-class carriages, reducing them almost to cinders.  The initial number of dead given by officials at the time was 383, all Egyptians.  However, considering that seven carriages were burnt to the ground, and each carriage was packed with at least double the maximum carrying capacity of 150, this number is considered by many people to be a great underestimate.  The dubious nature of the given death toll lies with the absence of a full passenger list; accounting for those missing was almost impossible at the time.  In addition, the fire was so intense and the carriages so badly burned that many corpses had been reduced to ash.  As there was no means of communication between the driver and the rear carriages, the driver did not know of the fire until about two hours after it had begun, resulting in many people, attempting to flee from the overcrowded carriages, jumping to their death.  Some important Egyptians have commentated that the official number of 383 dead is grossly inaccurate and was an attempt to lessen the damage done to the reputation of the government.  Many people consider a number of about 1000 deaths to be more accurate.
Title: British Airways Flight 38
Passage: British Airways Flight 38 (call sign Speedbird 38) is a scheduled flight operated by British Airways from Beijing, China to London, United Kingdom.  On January 17, 2008, at 12:42 GMT, the Boeing 777 used for the flight, having completed the 8100 km trip, crashed just short of the runway at its destination.  There were no fatalities but from the 152 people on board, 47 people sustained injuries, one of them serious.  The 150-tonne aircraft was the first Boeing 777-200ER to be written off in the model's history, and the first hull loss of any Boeing 777.
Title: Baikal Airlines Flight 130
Passage: Baikal Airlines Flight 130 was a scheduled domestic passenger route from Irkutsk to Moscow that crashed on 3 January 1994.  The plane involved in the crash was a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Russian airliner Baikal Airlines.  The plane was carrying 115 passengers and 9 crew members and was en route to Moscow when one of the engines suddenly burst into flames.  The crew then tried to return to Irkutsk, but lost control of the plane and crashed into a dairy farm near the town of Mamony.  All 124 people on board and one person on the ground were killed in the crash.
Title: Air France Flight 296
Passage: Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new fly-by-wire Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France.  On 26 June 1988, it crashed in front of a crowd of several thousand while flying over Mulhouse–Habsheim Airport (ICAO code LFGB) as part of the Habsheim air show, which resulted in its being one of the very few crashes of a commercial airplane caught in its entirety on video.  This particular flight was not only the A320's very first passenger flight (most of those on-board were journalists and raffle winners), but it was also the very first public demonstration of any civilian fly-by-wire aircraft.  The cause of the crash has been the source of major controversy.  The low-speed flyover, with landing gear down, was supposed to take place at an altitude of 100 feet (33 metres); instead, the plane performed the flyover at 30 feet, skimmed the treetops of the forest at the end of the runway (which had not been shown on the airport map given to the pilots), and crashed to the ground.  All the passengers survived the initial impact, though a woman and two children died from smoke inhalation before they were able to escape.
Title: 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash
Passage: The 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash occurred just before midnight on September 19, 2008, when a Learjet 60 (registration N999LJ ) crashed while taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina.  The weather at the time was cool, dry, and clear.  The plane hit runway lights and crashed through the boundary fence, crossing South Carolina Highway 302 (SC 302/Edmund Highway/Airport Boulevard), and came to rest on an embankment by the side of the highway.  No one on the ground was hurt, but four of the six people on the plane (including both pilots) died in the crash, while the other two, Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, suffered severe burns.  The plane was a charter flight taken by Barker, Goldstein and their entourage following a performance by their musical group TRV$DJAM at a free concert in Five Points earlier that night to Van Nuys, California.
Title: USAir Flight 5050
Passage: USAir Flight 5050 was a passenger flight that crashed on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York.  As the plane took off from LaGuardia's runway 31, the plane drifted to the left.  After hearing a loud bang, the pilots attempted to abort the takeoff, but were unable to stop the plane short of the end of the runway.  The plane continued past the end of the runway and plunged into Bowery Bay.  Two passengers were killed.
Francis Charig British Airways Flight 38