After narrow escape, fate catches up with Italian traveler

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.

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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.

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They could have worded it better...


This is kinda shocking and sad.

Not that IS Ironic

How sad, R.I.P.

Final Destination?

I heard this on the radio today.

That's so pretty creepy.

SUPRMAN said:

SUPA, I was thinking the very same thing when I read this. Eery.
[Edited 6/11/09 21:42pm]

I guess that gives creedence to the, "you can't escape your appointed time theory".

Eery.




Any references to Lake Erie were accidental and innocent on the part of the English assassin!
[Edited 6/12/09 0:59am]

TD3 said:

people kept saying that in the comments section somewhere on yahoo.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

When yer times up it's up.

Doesn't explain her husband though.....

TD3 said:

me too

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Nahhh i just think it proves how completely random life is, sometimes good people die young sometimes bad people live a mighty long time

Final Destination .....Part IV.

endymion said:

agreed, maybe the good people learned what they needed to in life and the bad people have to stay and suffer...i don't know.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Given the death theme here, your post cues...

(Even though the sinking took place in another Great Lake.)

endymion said:

I think so.

This story reminds me of a similar story around the 9-11 time. Wasn't there someone who survived the attack on the twin towers or one of those planes crashing and later on got killed in another plane accident? I'm sure it happened because I was thinking, how can someone be so lucky and after that have so much bad luck, it's scary.

CJanssen said:

I think you are Hot too

Sounds like the movies "Final Destination"

endymion said:

this is a serious thread Simon.... but thank you.

CJanssen said:

I feel like i have just been told off by the Teacher

endymion said:

Carmen says... I was joking

Lammastide said:

Reminds me of the many Irish dirges I heard in Newfoundland pertaining to their history! Enchanting to a landlubber like me!

endymion said:

Mayhap, who am I to say. Mayhap!

I don't believe in coincidence, everything happens for a reason. The car accident is not a repercussion of her having 'cheated' death it was merely bad luck.

PanthaGirl said:

everything happens for a reason/ merely bad luck.

Aren't those two separate theories?

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

I'll expand to clarify. Basically there were reasons behind her not making the flight that day, and then the events that lead up to her car accident are accountable hence leading to a stroke of bad luck (meaning misfortune, tragedy, adversity, catastrophe, bad break etc) for this woman.

PanthaGirl said:

The car accident is a direct repercussion of her having missed the flight.
If she had been on the flight she would not have been on that road in Italy a week later.
That's not bad luck.