Duibai: A long night of partying saved a Russian woman from death on board the ill-fated FZ981, Russian media has reported.
Elvira Isaeva, 33, told Russia's LifeNews that she was in the UAE for a vacation and was out celebrating a friend's birthday on Friday night. She overslept the next day and missed her airport transfer, as well as flight FZ981.
"It was just sheer luck," she said. "I just overslept. That's it."
She added that she woke up to the news the next day, but didn't understand the magnitude of what happened until later on.
"I woke-up to a phone-call from Rostov, where I bought the tour (to the UAE)," she is quoted as saying. "I didn't even understand what they meant when some trembling voice asked me 'are you alive'?"
"I said yes and went back to bed," she added. "And then, when I woke up and turned on the news. I was horrified. I don't know, is it my luck, a guardian angel watching over me or my mother's prayers, but I'm in dismay."
Isaeva -- who is still planning to fly back to Russia on flydubai -- said she was saddened by the loss of people with whom she shared happy times while on vacation.
21/03/16 Khaleej Times
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Elvira Isaeva, 33, told Russia's LifeNews that she was in the UAE for a vacation and was out celebrating a friend's birthday on Friday night. She overslept the next day and missed her airport transfer, as well as flight FZ981.
"It was just sheer luck," she said. "I just overslept. That's it."
She added that she woke up to the news the next day, but didn't understand the magnitude of what happened until later on.
"I woke-up to a phone-call from Rostov, where I bought the tour (to the UAE)," she is quoted as saying. "I didn't even understand what they meant when some trembling voice asked me 'are you alive'?"
"I said yes and went back to bed," she added. "And then, when I woke up and turned on the news. I was horrified. I don't know, is it my luck, a guardian angel watching over me or my mother's prayers, but I'm in dismay."
Isaeva -- who is still planning to fly back to Russia on flydubai -- said she was saddened by the loss of people with whom she shared happy times while on vacation.
21/03/16 Khaleej Times
