Woman who missed doomed Air France flight killed in car crash

Friday 12th June, 02:59 PM JST

ROME —

An Italian woman who dodged death when she and her husband narrowly missed Air France Flight 447, was killed in a car accident just over a week later, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported Thursday.

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 Ganthalers flew out of the country for Austria on a flight the day after the jet went missing.

Mrs Ganthaler died when the car in which they were traveling veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured, ANSA reported.

Wire reports

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nadavaloryo at 11:00 PM JST - 12th June

oh!!! its just like final distination,,,right
WilliB at 11:03 PM JST - 12th June

Talk about Karma...
cow76 at 11:04 PM JST - 12th June

I wish people would stop crapping on about fate. Honestly, I was just starting to believe the average person wasn't a moron and now this? If fate exists, please explain how it works and how the fundamental rules of physics, chemistry and logic somehow don't apply to it.

PS It's safer in the air than on the ground.
seesaw at 11:06 PM JST - 12th June

Unbelievable!
usaexpat at 11:09 PM JST - 12th June

Wow just like the movie "Final Destination" weird and very unlucky.
DeepAir65 at 11:23 PM JST - 12th June

PS It's safer in the air than on the ground.

Yeah - it's hitting the ground that kills you (or water)

Hope she used her extra week wisely
Madverts at 11:37 PM JST - 12th June

Poor sod.
parforthecourse at 01:15 AM JST - 13th June

Man when your time is up, it is UP.
mistersmarmy at 01:30 AM JST - 13th June

its called unlucky.
HonestDictator at 01:35 AM JST - 13th June

I doubt this has anything to do with fate, act of God etc... she missed the plane, and later on died in a car accident. More of a coincidence if anything.
ca1ic0cat at 02:24 AM JST - 13th June

There is irony for you. Tragic all over again.
alterna at 03:48 AM JST - 13th June

very weird.
Smythe at 06:20 AM JST - 13th June

Most of us will remember her at the airport with the born again bit. True she probably felt as if she was blessed or lucky. Unfotunately this time she really was done it.

Probably sad to those close to her, but that is life.
Bento at 10:42 PM JST - 13th June

nothing predetermines events,all outcomes can be altered right down to the final second,action/consequence or inaction/consequence... Fate is used by the congenitally lazy to explain events conveniently..when generally events are more likely to be explained accurately inconveniently. Personal fate is alterable, as all smokers who have kicked the life shortening habit understand, fatalists believe that their dying day is predetermined so it won't matter if they smoke or not..Karma,if anything is much more closely aligned to the 'action consequence theory' than the 'everything is predetermined' theory.
ensnaturae at 04:21 PM JST - 15th June

everyone dies a week after they might have died because of, or been killed by, something else. Its just that it doesnt ALL get into the papers, and who knew,anyway.