How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Ricardo Trajano was the only passenger to survive a fire on a plane in 1973. His flight from Brazil was forced to make an emergency landing outside Paris, and 123 people died. But, as he's been telling Thomas Pappon, he stayed alive by ignoring all the official safety advice.
Photo: Ricardo Trajano as a young man. Copyright: Ricardo Trajano.
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| 1:11.1 | at BBC Sounds, Just before this BBC |
| 1:13.5 | podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. My name's Linda |
| 1:17.8 | Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds. As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality |
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