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An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.
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 ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day. It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured
 
The emerging reports make the air accident all the more horrific. They now seem to think the plane may have broken up in stages over a period of time. How awful for those going through that.
 
Wouldn't you be rendered unconscious pretty quickly, DO, at that speed and height, even if the plane did break up midair? Hopefully, the worst would be a few seconds of confusion, followed by unconsciousness. I don't really want to think about their last moments - all fatal air crashes are horrendous - I just don't want them to have suffered.
 
I don't know. I think it dpends on the height, speed etc of the plane. I wouldn't imagine the plane had reached its cruising height/speed so early in the flight. I suppose you'd hope they were soon unconscious and didn't know too much about it. I'm like you. I really don't want to think about it too much but I can't help feeling for the victims.
 
Dave G said:
DO, 4 hours into the flight, the plane will definitely have reached it's cruisng height / speed.
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Ah. When I read it had been found 200 miles offshore I thought it must have been flying for less than half an hour (since a 400 mile flight to London takes about an hour).
 
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