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Elderly Croatian music teacher serial crash survivor
Thu May 22, 9:43 PM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo!
ZAGREB (AFP) - Escaping alive from the debris of a crushed plane, train or automobile is a life-changing experience for many survivors, but the novelty has long since worn off for one elderly Croatian man, a local newspaper reported.
Frane Selak, a music teacher from the central town of Petrinja, is perhaps the world's most accomplished serial crash survivor.
"I survived a series of accidents, very often without any consequences," Selak told the paper.
Besides a series of serious car accidents, Selak emerged unscathed after the bus he was travelling on plunged into a Bosnian river, killing all on board except Selak and the driver.
But it was 1962 and 1963 that were, in Selak's words, the "most critical years" in his history of death-defying adventures.
In 1962, Selak was on a train that plunged into another Bosnian river, the Neretva, killing dozens of passengers. He escaped unharmed.
"I was even luckier a year later," Selak said. That year, a small plane crashed in Croatia, killing 17 passengers and three crew members.
Selak had been on board when the plane took off but not, miraculously, when it crashed.
"The plane's rear doors opened and I was simply sucked out of the plane," Selak explained.
He woke up three days later in a Zagreb hospital, where he was told that rescuers had discovered him unconscious in a haystack.
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lucky bastard.
Elderly Croatian music teacher serial crash survivor
Thu May 22, 9:43 PM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo!
ZAGREB (AFP) - Escaping alive from the debris of a crushed plane, train or automobile is a life-changing experience for many survivors, but the novelty has long since worn off for one elderly Croatian man, a local newspaper reported.
Frane Selak, a music teacher from the central town of Petrinja, is perhaps the world's most accomplished serial crash survivor.
"I survived a series of accidents, very often without any consequences," Selak told the paper.
Besides a series of serious car accidents, Selak emerged unscathed after the bus he was travelling on plunged into a Bosnian river, killing all on board except Selak and the driver.
But it was 1962 and 1963 that were, in Selak's words, the "most critical years" in his history of death-defying adventures.
In 1962, Selak was on a train that plunged into another Bosnian river, the Neretva, killing dozens of passengers. He escaped unharmed.
"I was even luckier a year later," Selak said. That year, a small plane crashed in Croatia, killing 17 passengers and three crew members.
Selak had been on board when the plane took off but not, miraculously, when it crashed.
"The plane's rear doors opened and I was simply sucked out of the plane," Selak explained.
He woke up three days later in a Zagreb hospital, where he was told that rescuers had discovered him unconscious in a haystack.
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lucky bastard.
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Yeah, I've been there with him. Mrs. Raptor and survived the Serbian terrorist attack of a tourist bus by a firebomb just as it was crossing the Starri Most, the famous and picturesque bridge across the Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia (since destroyed by thre Serbs in the war) . The bus exploded into flames and careened off the bridge and into the river, drowning everyone on board exceot the two of us.
