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Amazing cases: only survivors of air accidents

If you are one of those people who have panic to travel by plane , and who suffer from high anxiety with all those stories related to air accidents, we recommend you not continue reading this article., if curiosity can be more than fear... ahead.

Although it is the safest means of transport and the accident rate always be very low, air disasters occur from time to time, where it is more than frequent that every passenger and crew member on board the ship loses its life.

Now, if there is something that we it attracts attention, it is the case of those people who manage to survive.The cinema usually calls them "protected", "only survivors" or even miracle children, because in some way, it is frequent that they are almost always creatures which log Ran out of this kind of disaster alive.The subject is undoubtedly interesting, from there we invite you to know 5 incredible cases.

Erika Delgado, 9 years

Erika was a girl who was traveling by plane with her family on January 13, 1995.The Bogota-Cartagena de Indias route was taken, when suddenly, and almost at the equator of the trip, the plane began have problems and the pilot was forced to make a forced and very dangerous landing: in a swamp.

It was terrible.51 people died after the ship split in two and It will explode.We are especially struck by Erika's story: her mother, before being completely burned, had time to throw her out of the plane to fall into the water .The girl only broke her arm.

You may think that the story ended here, unfortunately Erika's memory retains a most unpleasant gesture.Just when a man appeared before her and he thought that they were finally going to offer him help, he was robbed of the only thing he kept of his mother: a collar. The plane was being looted and it took several hours to attend to the only person who had survived..

Cecilia Cichan, 4 years old

Cecilia is today a good psychologist.From that disaster she lived with only 4 years she recalls brief and hard scenes that will accompany her for life We are in 1987, on August 16 when a plane with 154 people takes off from Detroit.

Amazing cases: only survivors of air accidents

They did not reach the sky, a few minutes later it crashed causing a great disaster: all the bodies lay in chaotic drama between the fire, fuselage, rest of the plane and luggage.Only one girl was saved: Cecilia Cichan, sitting in her seat surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her parents and her brother. Ter rible, there is no doubt.

George Lamson, 17 years old

The plane of the company “Galaxy Airlines” crashed on January 21, 1985 when he was on the Nevada-Minessota route On board were 71 people.

Amazing cases: only survivors of air accidents

In this case the chance and the strange magic of destiny wanted that during the impact, a single seat shot out of the plane: it was that of young George, 17 years old Do you know what he did after he received the blow of the fall? Unfasten the seat belt almost instantly.Something inside him, and despite the wounds, he told him to leave there as soon as possible.Without knowing very well how, I started running before the plane exploded.except for life.Incredible.

Ruben Van Assouw, 9 years old

Ruben Van Assouw was 9 years old and had just spent an unforgettable holiday with his family that week of the first of May 2010 He was Dutch, and was traveling with his people to Tripoli on flight 8U771.

Amazing cases: only survivors of air accidents

I do not reach their destination.The plane crashed leaving 103 victims almost on the spot, except for our protagonist, who despite suffering multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury, he recovered quickly .In two weeks he was discharged, however, it was the moment when the worst began: process everything that happened, and learn to live without his family.

Bahia Bakari, 13 years old

Again, a girl.We are in the company “Yemen Airlines”, in a plane with 152 passengers.It should be said that later it was found out that plane had technical failures and I did not have the permission to fly, however, the trip took place with a dramatic but predictable end for many.

Amazing cases: only survivors of air accidents

Cayo in the Indian ocean, all died except for the young Bahia, who had that spending several hours holding on to the wreckage of the plane seeing how around it, floated not only the bodies of the passengers, but also had to face a rough sea c on several sharks.The rescue agents found her when she was already without strength and passed out.That day she was born again... Only time would erase the internal wounds experienced that terrible June 30, 2009.

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