A French couple is lucky to be alive today after not being able to board the doomed flight of Air France flight 447. The couple, medical professor Claude Jaffiol and wife, Amina, tried desperately to get on the plane that would later disappear into the Atlantic ocean.
“It’s miraculous — we should have been on the plane” said Claude. The couple were in Brazil and decided to cut their trip short and return to the French city of Montpellier. Claude explained that he had been in Rio de Janeiro for a seminar and decided to stay a little longer for some tourism. They decided to leave a little earlier than planned.
Despite trying everything they could to get on the earlier flight, they were turned down because the flight was full.
“We’ve had an amazing stroke of luck. After awhile we were afraid, and our thoughts are with those who were in the plane,” his wife Amina said.
As sad as this tragedy is, the only good news that is ever going to come out of this is stories like this of people who are lucky to be alive today because of some random chance.
Air France flight 447 disappeared off the coast of Brazil on Monday. The plane was carrying 228 people and is believed to have crashed into the Atlantic ocean.
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