2025-09-01
40 分钟There is a giant drop, and then accelerating motors, then another giant drop, people screaming.
He looks at me, I look at him, he grabs my hand, I grab his, and everything goes black.
Next, I wake up to chaos.
Today, the sole survivor of a plane crash who spent eight days in the jungle fighting for her life,
Annette Herfkins was on a romantic getaway with her fiancé in 1992 in Vietnam when the plane they were on hit turbulence and went down.
How did she manage to stay alive?
And what did those eight harrowing days teach her about finding beauty in life's darkest moments?
From the BBC World Service, this is Lives Less Ordinary.
I'm Asya Fuchs.
When Annette met a man named Willem van der Pas, or Pasha as she often called him,
as students back in 1979, it didn't take long for sparks to fly.
We started going out because he said something, he dared me.
He said, he said, I know something you don't dare.
And that's how we kissed first.
And then we were already really best friends because we're living in the same student home.
So wait, what was the dare?
The dare, kissing him.
Oh, okay.
Bold.
And that really, that was really like the thing to get to me because that was really, oh, oh really.