Johanna Ganthaler showed up late on May 31 for Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight
Johanna Ganthaler showed up late on May 31 for Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight
Her luck didn't last long. A woman who showed up late at the airport and missed the doomed Air France flight from Brazil died in a car crash a couple of days later.
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Tragic: Brazilian Air Force personnel carry a body recovered during search operations of the missing Air France flight yesterday. |
Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian senior citizen, was on vacation with her husband, Kurt, in Brazil and were ticketed to fly on Flight 447 to Paris.
The couple showed up late at Rio de Janeiro's airport and missed the flight on May 31.
All 228 people aboard were killed after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.
The couple took another flight to Europe the next day and were driving to their home in Italy's Bolzano-Bozen province.
Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck.
Her husband was seriously injured.
