A woman who showed up late to the airport and missed the doomed
Air France flight from
Brazil died in a car crash a couple of days later, news services reported.
Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian senior citizen, was on vacation with her husband, Kurt, in Brazil and were ticketed to fly on Flight 447 to
Paris.
The couple showed up late at
Rio de Janeiro's airport and missed the flight on May 31.
All 228 people aboard were killed after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.
The couple took another flight to
Europe the next day and were driving to their home in
Italy's Bolzano-Bozen province.
The
ANSA news agency reported that Johanna Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein,
Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck.
Her husband was seriously injured.