Maarten de Jonge is an incredibly lucky man. He managed to twice cheat death this year by simply changing his plane reservations.
According to The Independent, the 29-year-old Dutch athlete who competes for Malaysia’s Terengganu Cycling Team was scheduled to fly on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot out of the sky on July 17 while en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
At the last minute, de Jonge switched to a later flight because it was cheaper, The Telegraph reported. Nearly 300 people on board Flight 17 died when the plane was struck by a surface-to-air missile over Ukraine.
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Source: The Huffington Post
