Woman Who Missed Doomed Air France Flight Dies In Car Crash

When It's Your Time,It's Your Time

It's the kind of story that makes you wonder about the nature of fate.

Johanna Ganthaler and her husband Kurt must have been breathing more than just a sigh of relief last week. The couple had been on vacation in Brazil and they were running late. Despite their best efforts, they missed the plane that was supposed to take them back to Europe, leaving them feeling frustrated.

It was a frustration that turned to grateful amazement - the jet that took off without them was Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people onboard, including a former Guelph resident.

The Ganthalers wound up taking an alternate flight back and arrived safely. They were driving home, when their vehicle veered off the road in Austria and into an oncoming truck.

Johanna, who had managed to avoid dying in the plane crash, was killed in the collision, while her husband was seriously injured.

It's not clear what caused their vehicle to lose control.

Meanwhile, the search for the black boxes continues in the depths, with the help of a nuclear submarine equipped with sonar. Time is of the essence - the pings from those data recorders will stop next month.

Forty-one bodies have now been recovered from the crash site. Authorities hope to use DNA to identify the remains.

I know it's just coincidence,but I felt a small shiver when I read this story.It reminds me of Final Destination.

That's pretty Twilight Zoneish! I heard other stories of things like that happening.
Sad though.

Hey... so was this crash due to terrorists?

Final Destination was the first thing I thought of!!!

That is totally final destination shock

It's sad to think that she got her second chance taken away.

La Diva Carlotta wrote:: Final Destination was the first thing I thought of!!!

I thought that too.

Or maybe its because of the couples attitude following the airplane going down. I'd imagine that after they found out they survived an accident that claimed 228 lives, they felt pretty indestructible. Maybe they thought "Hey, I can survive that I can survive anything." And that made them less cautious than normal on the roads and that caused the car crash. But that's just my guess.

Its still pretty creepy...

Lolita Rose wrote:

La Diva Carlotta wrote:: Final Destination was the first thing I thought of!!!

I thought that too.

Me too

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