The Nature Of Fate

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Woman Who Missed Doomed Air France Flight Dies In Car Crash

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35269.aspx


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. 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.

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.


Was it fated that she wasn't to go on living? What about her husband?

[Strong]

Well statistically speaking air travel is the safest form of transportation. Although I'm wondering if that study included wheelbarrows. Who can say what would have happened. She could have been pushing him along in the barrow and impaled herself on a stray goat horn.

The statistical chances are very small I admit, but are they as unlikely as the 14 million to 1 for winning the lottery in England? I don't think so, and someone wins the lottery practically every week!

A sad situation. But think about the guy. Missed the plane and survived the crash, but lost a wife. Talk about mixed emotions.

[Muddy]

Fate schmate. No such thing. Clearly the husband was responsible for the plane crash and the veering.

[Strong]

You know what? That was the first thought that crossed my mind. Let us hope he never gets to hear about this thread. :eek:

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> Let us hope he never gets to hear about this thread.

If you won't tell him, I won't

;)

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[Strong]

You know the internet. He is likely to google the plane crash and this thread will be top of the list :shock:

[krisma5]

That kind of reminds me of the movie series "Final Destination". Where the group of kids just make it off the plane before it crashes and then one after the other die from a different accident.

[fastreplies]

You know the internet. He is likely to google the plane crash and this thread will be top of the list :shock:

Lets hope he is Internet illiterate

;)

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[Zap]

That kind of reminds me of the movie series "Final Destination". Where the group of kids just make it off the plane before it crashes and then one after the other die from a different accident.

I was thinking the same thing. There's a new one in theatres now.

[krisma5]

Really? cool! Hope it gets here soon... We always get the movies lots later than the states do.

[ewomack]

Fate exists. Movies and television tell me so. I need no other authority.

[Strong]

Random happenstance makes fate appear to exist. At least that's what I heard on a science show I was watching the other day. ;)

[krisma5]

I wonder if that has anything to do with Dejavue...

[Strong]

Isn't that to do with the rewind button on the remote ;)

[krisma5]

I wish sometimes that I could rewind somethings, like dreams... and watch them again.

[Strong]

I see. Might I suggest a camcorder. It will at least give you an impression. ;)

[Muddy]

Then you can see your leg kicking while you dream about chasing a rabbit. And stuff.

[Strong]

Good point. You can't record what goes through people's heads as yet. But it's coming, they can already predict, in a general way, what people are thinking.

[krisma5]

Then you can see your leg kicking while you dream about chasing a rabbit. And stuff.

Thanks, that was a good laugh! :sqlaugh:

[ewomack]

My wife has been talking in her sleep a lot recently. I'm usually too groggy to comprehend or remember what she says, but it wakes me up every time... I would like to record that...

[Muddy]

And so you should! Just for the bonding experience of playing it back to her over a cuppa if nothing else.

[krisma5]

I would like to hear it too...:sqwink: