Witness History
Witness History
BBC World Service
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
8 minutes Posted Sep 13, 2018 at 3:03 am.
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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.