Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson

the past brought to life by those who were there this week from the 1980s the saga of the

Cayenne Sea a ship carrying American toxic waste around the world looking

for somewhere to dump it.

We had no way of knowing where it was going, probably in part because they had no plan either, and they were just trying to find a place to get

rid of the ash.

Plus, Chamberlain's diaries reveal his tactics in talks with Hitler before the Second World War, and the man who was arrested alongside the South African

anti-aparte campaign as Steve Bico.

We turned to each other.

I greeted Steve quite loudly, and we were taken to separate police stations and that was the last

time I saw Steve Bico alive.

That's coming up later in the podcast but we begin with an extraordinary tale of survival against the odds

when a passenger jet crashes sadly the chances of the passengers getting out alive are

pretty slim all too often the news reports will read there were no survivors. But just

occasionally people are found alive in the smoldering wreckage. For this story we're

going back to 1973 when a Brazilian airliner crash landed in flames in a field

outside Paris after a fire on board.

Ten crew members survived, but a hundred and, and that was because he disobeyed all the safety

instructions he'd been given.

That passenger Ricardo Trujano has been speaking to Thomas Papon.

I was 21 years old studying engineering at Petropolis University in Brazil.

I liked rock music very much.

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