Regardless of what these couples believe in their hearts, it was a judge who would award custody of the child to its guardians, based on the evidence of the day. As their swords are drawn, we get to see their true colours. Polar opposites is an understatement: The Vitrals were down to earth yet struggling for money, the de Carvilles had far too much of it, not really giving a damn about anyone else. What happened next is a battle of the grandparents they had each lost their children to the crash and could not face losing a grandchild too. There were two babies aboard the fatal flight: Lyse-Rose de Carville and Emilie Vitral. The journalists manipulated the location of Mont Terri where the collision happened to create a more sensational headline for a tragedy that no one could ever forget anyway. For a three month old child to be thrown from the fuselage and live was nothing short of a miracle, and this is how it was reported in the local media at the time: “The Miracle of Mount Terrible”. In 1980, a baby’s identity is questioned as it is claimed by two families following an aeroplane crash, in which there were no other survivors. This is a story of unimaginable loss, a desperate bond of love and the lengths people are prepared to go to for their own selfish gain irrespective of the consequences. It latched onto me from the off and was utterly, utterly magnificent until the very end. Quite simply, After The Crash embraces tension and suspense with relish. With that dragonfly suspiciously gracing the cover this book not only looks sinister, it IS sinister. The sole survivor was a baby, three months old, thrown from the plane when it collided with the mountainside, before the cabin was consumed by fire…”
Of the 169 passengers and flight crew aboard, 168 were killed upon impact or perished in the flames. “The Airbus 5403, travelling from Istanbul to Paris, crashed into Mont Terri, on the Franco-Swiss border, last night. Publisher: WN Books | Publication date: 12th March 2015 | Edition: Hardback (Review copy) – Now out in paperback: 27th August 2015
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