The frills of Fortune: these people proved that you can’t escape fate (8 photos)

These stories may seem fiction, but, nevertheless, what happened to these people is the absolute truth.





Unsinkable Violet



These pretty ladies are Violet Jessop, Argentinian Irish origin. And an example of just incredible luck. Literally through a few moments after the photo was taken, fate will smile (smiles?) 23-year-old girl. She will get a job at the Olympic. A 10 years old later, while crossing the Atlantic, he would collide with the cruiser Hawk.



Everyone had to go through a lot of unpleasant moments. And Violet decided to change her job: she transferred as a stewardess to ... "Titanic". The work is familiar, the team is familiar - all the same Captain Edward John Smith and assistants Murdoch and Lightoller. The fate of the Titanic is known: April 14 In 1912, there was a meeting with an iceberg, which became fatal. Jessop escaped on a boat and in 1916 switched to the Britannic, the largest from a series of ships converted into a floating hospital.



The Britannic hit a mine while on her way to pick up the wounded. Vessel went under the water slowly, but they hurried with the launch of the boats: two of they were tightened with screws under the bottom. Naturally, in one of the boats there was Nurse Violet. The woman managed to jump out and hit her head on the keel. She was saved from death by a mop of luxurious hair, which acted as airbags.

What is amazing, after all the adventures, she continued to go to flights and lived to an advanced age, even by modern standards, of 83 years. To word, the thread of life should have been interrupted in childhood: the girl fell ill tuberculosis, and doctors gave disappointing forecasts.

Iron Arthur



No less interesting is the fate of a simple hard worker - British Arthur John Priest, who worked as a stoker. Without unnecessary lyrics, he will speak for him just a to-do list:

Apparently, the stoker was tired of being in the thick of things and experiencing yourself for strength. He died at the age of 49 from pneumonia the life of a land man. Good health is probably not the fact that the man became a regular in pubs also contributed. After all everyone wanted to fraternize with the unsinkable stoker and treat him mug or two of ale.

Unprecedented flight



There was nothing foretold here. Routine flight in 1990 from Birmingham to Spanish Malaga. Vacationers on board. Everything is quiet. How suddenly, after 10 minutes of flight, the cockpit glass burst, and the pilot was knocked out a stream of air. True, the flight attendant immediately assessed the situation and grabbed the boss by the legs, stuck between the steering wheel and the control panel.

The crew mentally said the last "forgive" to the chief. But you need a plane was to land, because there are people on board. The co-pilot successfully made it through 10 minutes. But the chief's legs were held at the same time, reasonably fearing that a stuck body can damage the aircraft.



Imagine everyone's surprise when they saw that Timothy Lancaster is alive. Not to say directly healthy: injuries, fractures, frostbite. But neither colleagues, nor passengers, nor birds flying past with with beaks open in surprise, this was definitely not seen. Six months later rehabilitation therapy, the man returned to duty and sat at the helm.



The stories of these lucky ones demonstrate that when fate puts sticks in the wheels, only worthless spokes break ... Have you ever encounter cases of miraculous and repeated salvation?