Amazing - Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6479203.ece
<snip>
From Times Online
June 11, 2009

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.

Man who born fi hang can't drown.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8841240&mesg_id=8841309

(I ain't cutting and pasting).

interesting response.

"The Appointment in Samarra"
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham <1933>)
The speaker is Death

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

but there's one about the 19th century man who dreamed he would die on a horse so he got up the morning and told his wife he was not leaving the house.
As the day wore on, he became bored and decided to clean out the bird cage.
He climbed up on the clothes horse - and fell to his death.

Interesting twist with the clothes horse.

I think the one Maugham retold was originally a Sufi tale, but I imagine versions of it exist in many cultures and the origins go far back.

her since the crash. Perhaps her toilets backed up or her car got a strange scratch on it that looked like Jesus. "Fate" sure is strange.

That - or she was a witness to the JFK conspiracy and was about to blow the lid off the whole thing and had to be "accidented."

:scared: RIP... We should keep tabs on the others who missed the flight too.

and she wasn't on it. :evilgrin:

likely to die in a car crash, than a plane crash. Therefore she still would have to die 99 times in car crashes before she'll die on a plane.
dc