The Final Destination franchise has skirted death many times. Originally conceived as a sample script for The X-Files in 1995, it made the unusual transition into a feature film five years later. In each movie, Death itself hunts down victims who evaded their intended fate.
The Woman Who Cheated Death at a Brazilian Nightclub Fire which Killed 238 Only to Die a Week Later in a Car Crash
In January 2013, Jessica de Lima Rohl, 21, helped organize a party for university students at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, south Brazil and sold tickets for the event. But as she was getting ready to leave her home on the night of the doomed freshers’ ball which left 238 dead, her boyfriend called and asked her not to go.
Despite most of her friends being at the event, agribusiness student Miss de Lima Rohl listened to the pleas of 20-year-old Adriano Stefanel, who was living in another town, and stayed home. Hours later, flames would rip through the packed club after a band member lit a firework on stage which ignited the club’s foam roof. Many died after inhaling toxic fumes, while others were crushed in a battle to escape the blaze. It was the worst nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Only five days later, the girl travelled to the town where her boyfriend had been working, and the two planned to return together by car two days later – a distance of 82 miles. However, according to police the couple had driven just a few miles when their Volkswagon Golf collided head-on with a truck.
Jessica died instantly, and Mr. Stefanel, who would have turned 21 the next day, died later in the hospital. (Link)
The Girl Who Survived the Asiana Plane Crash but was Killed by a Responding Firetruck
But in the chaotic moments that followed, including flames devouring the fuselage, those aboard escaping by emergency slides, and flight attendants frantically cutting away seat belts to free passengers, a fire truck ran over Yuan, killing her.
Yuan, 16, was lying injured on the runway, but was covered by fire-retardant foam that was sprayed by first responders. Two San Francisco Fire Department firefighters saw Yuan lying in a fetal position on the runway and assumed that she was dead. However, a coroner later determined that she had still been alive.
In unreleased video footage, the first foam truck is seen driving away from the scene as Chief Johnson arrives and looks over the area where Yuan was covered by foam. A second foam truck arrives on the scene and also soaks the plane with foam. Unaware that Yuan was beneath the foam, the driver backed up and killed the teen.
She was one of the two fatalities of the unfortunate accident. The other victim was Mengyuan’s classmate, Wang Linjia. Remarkably, 305 others on the plane survived the crash. (Link 1 | Link 2)
The Woman Who was Killed in the Dark Knight Massacre After Surviving a Mall Shooting in Toronto
Just a month before that, Redfield had survived a shooting that killed one person and left a handful of other people wounded in the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto. Redfield reflected on her near-death experience on her blog, writing, “I can’t get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away. … It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.”
She said that she chose a burger over sushi and then decided to go outside to get fresh air because she had a strange feeling. Had she not gone out, she would have been standing in the food court during the shooting. (Link)
The Woman Who Survived the 9/11 Attack Only to Die on Flight AA 587 Two Months Later
The 26-year-old Mayol was heading home to the Dominican Republic to vacation with her mother and her two children, who happened to have taken a flight out of New York two weeks prior. (Link)
The Only Member of the University of Evansville Men’s Basketball Team Who was Not on the Deadly DC-3 Flight but was Killed After Being Hit By a Drunk Driver Two Weeks Later
The plane crash occurred on December 13, 1977 when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071, carrying the University of Evansville basketball team crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. The plane was on its way to Nashville, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.
However, there was another terrible twist of fate. Cut from the team because of an ankle injury, UE freshman David Furr was not on the plane. Two weeks after the crash, he and his 16-year-old brother were driving home from a holiday basketball tournament and were killed in a drunken car accident in Newton, IL, leaving all of the members of the 1977 Purple Aces Basketball team dead. (Link 1 | Link 2)
The Father and Daughter Who Died in a Plane Wreck Four Years After They Narrowly Escaped Death in an Airplane Crash
They were both members of the Experimental Aircraft Association and were flying a kit-built Ravin 500, a plane flown by less than 20 people worldwide.
In 2007, they miraculously survived an emergency landing in a hay field after the engine in their homemade plane caught fire.
“I give all the credit to God and my father’s flying skills,” Ridings said after the 2007 crash. “He saved our lives.”
There’s no indication whether God or her father’s flying skills were taking a break this past weekend, or whether Death finally caught up to Warren and Ridings Final Destination-style, but this was a pretty awful tragedy. (Link)
The Woman Who Missed Air France Flight 447 Only to Die in a Car Crash 2 Weeks Later
Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed their flight after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro Airport. All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris. After losing the flight, the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.
Two weeks later, Ms. Ganthaler died when her car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.
However, as much as we would like to think that this was just like the famous blockbuster, according to a Brazilian TV show the woman and her husband hadn’t bought a ticket from Air France. They were actually traveling to Iberia. The surviving husband testified that the story was just a lie. (Link)
The Little Boy Who Survived a Monster Oklahoma Tornado Only to Be Mauled to Death by a Dog
These two scenarios cruelly collided when a 150-lb bull mastiff fatally mauled a 5-year-old boy, puncturing his head and neck.
Lynn Geiling had taken the little boy into her Jessieville, Arkansas home after he and his family survived a monster tornado that waylaid Moore, Oklahoma in May 2013. His parents had returned home, 200 miles away, to gather up the pieces of their lives.
On the tragic day, something upset the child and he threw a temper tantrum. Geiling went over to calm him, but the screaming upset another family member — Geiling’s dog.
The dog probably thought that the boy was attacking its owner, so it lunged for him.
Geiling fought to unlock the dog’s jaws from around the boy while calling to her husband for help. She pried the dog loose, but the damage was done. The couple rushed the bleeding boy into an ambulance which took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. (Link)
Source: Oddee.com
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