final-destination

Stop me if you’ve heard this one…

A woman and her husband walk into an airport. They miss their flight home from a Brazilian vacation. The Air France jet takes off and disappears with it’s 288 passengers into the wild blue yonder, while the woman and her husband land happily ever after on a later flight.

The End.

Epilogue: The woman dies in a car crash a few days later.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from the Bolzano-Bozen Province (South Tyrol), and her husband Kurt, were vacationing in Brazil and missed Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1. The couple took a flight to Europe later that day.

The car veered off the road near Kufstein, Austria, killing Johanna.

Moral of the story: Some would say fate or Final Destination had a hand in this eerie true tale, but I tend to lean on Good Faith that the woman’s surviving husband, Kurt, was spared for a reason. The man will need time to mourn his wife, of course, but once the proverbial clouds have lifted I hope he’ll emerge with a cure for cancer or AIDS. Maybe he’ll become a regular Mother Teresa. Perhaps a grassroots activist for Tibetan freedom. Who knows. The possibilities are endless. Some may think Kurt needs to watch his back for runaway roller coasters and/or renegade lawn mower blades aimed for the jugular. But lest ye forget, Job was made whole again and became great after all had been stripped away.

But just in case, everyone keep Kurt at arm’s length for a few weeks. Safety first, kids.

Italian Who Missed Fatal Air France Flight Dies In Car Crash [Fin Channel]