KUFSTEIN, Austria, June 12 (UPI) -- A woman who showed up too late to check in for the doomed Air France flight from Brazil died only days later in an Austrian car crash, authorities said.
Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian senior citizen, and her husband, Kurt, arrived at the Rio de Janeiro airport May 31 and discovered they were too late to catch Flight 447 to Paris, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with no survivors among the 228 people on board, the New York Daily News reported.
Ganthaler and her husband caught another flight to Europe the following day and were involved in an auto accident on their way home to Bolzano-Bozen province in Italy, ANSA, the Italian news agency, reported Friday.
The woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured when their car swerved into the path of an oncoming truck in Kufstein, Austria, ANSA reported.
