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Goose Posted: Fri, Jun 12 2009 12:42 PM

Times (London) Online

June 11, 2009

Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash


An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.

All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.

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Maverick replied on Fri, Jun 12 2009 2:47 PM

 What terrible luck, just missing one tragic situation and immediately going into another. It does strike me a little bit though of the film Final Destination.

 

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whansen02 replied on Thu, Jul 16 2009 9:29 PM

Reminds me of the Mothman prophecies.  *spooky*  I suppose when your time is up, your time is up.

Sad.

 
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