Missed Air France Flight, Only to Die in Car Crash

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  • DwightShrute
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 01-17-09
    • 103754

    #1
    Missed Air France Flight, Only to Die in Car Crash
    Missed Air France Flight, Only to Die in Car Crash


    A woman who dodged death when she and her husband narrowly missed Air France Flight 447 before it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard, was killed in a car accident just over a week later.


    An Air France airliner carrying 228 people from Brazil to Paris crashed into the Atlantic
    after a possible lightning strike.






    Johanna Ganthaler a retiree from the Bolzano-Bozen province, was on vacation in Brazil with her husband Kurt when the pair miraculously missed the doomed flight to Paris. But their luck ran out on an Austrian road earlier this week when their car swerved into the path of an oncoming truck outside the town of Kufstein, the Times (U.K.) reported.
    Kurt Ganthaler was badly hurt in the accident.
    Flight 447 disappeared from radar shortly after leaving Rio de Janeiro and is believed to have broken apart shortly after it left the airport in Brazil on May 31 with 228 people on board.
    Some three dozen bodies have been fished out of the ocean where the Airbus jet plunged into the water. A nuclear-powered French submarine has begun scouring the seafloor for any sign of the black box, which could hold the key to determining what felled the plane.
    The Ganthalers flew out of the country on a flight the day after the jet went missing.


    Makes you wonder if the plane never went down, would she have still gotten into the car accident?
  • pavyracer
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 04-12-07
    • 82907

    #2
    Too many trips in foreign countries when the traffic laws are different and the local roads are unfamiliar result in accidents. They rolled the dice too many times.
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    • SexyMit
      SBR Hall of Famer
      • 10-12-06
      • 6139

      #3
      Final Destination anyone!
      If it seems to good to be true it usually is!!

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      • KingRevolver
        SBR Hall of Famer
        • 06-05-09
        • 5293

        #4
        Crazy shit...
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        • Slim
          SBR MVP
          • 11-13-08
          • 4722

          #5
          Brazillians can't fly for shit. Last year there was a big crash where the plane plowed into a gas station. People's Daily Online - 200 killed after Brazilian jet slams into gas station
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          • englishmike
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            • 06-19-08
            • 5279

            #6
            You could argue they were given an extra week the people on the plane didn't get.
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            • Shortstop
              BARRELED IN @ SBR!
              • 01-02-09
              • 27281

              #7
              Wow.
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              • englishmike
                SBR Hall of Famer
                • 06-19-08
                • 5279

                #8
                They were meant to be on a doomed flight. A week later they tragically died in a car crash, but you can bet they had a good week knowing they'd just been given another shot.

                I make the odds of beng in Brazil on holiday at the exact same time your return flight goes down at 1,000,000-1. I make managing to avoid that flight 4-1 since there were probably only four or five flights they could have got anyway. I make dying in a car crash a week later 1,000,000-1

                They were pretty unlucky.
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                • Shortstop
                  BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                  • 01-02-09
                  • 27281

                  #9
                  It's interesting how one could miss an International Flight like that. Typically they ask that you arrive at least 2 hours prior to departure. It's not like they take off every hour or two. That was probably the only flight that day to Paris, maybe one other. I wonder why they missed the flight?
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                  • HAPPY BOY
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                    • 08-10-05
                    • 7109

                    #10
                    You dont cheat death bi-ATCH heh heh heh .... JJ IM COMMING FOR YOU NEXT PUTZ!
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