Lucky swap saves man from death

ROME - An Italian found out yesterday he had been saved from death on the Paris bound TWA aircraft by his early arrival at the…

ROME - An Italian found out yesterday he had been saved from death on the Paris bound TWA aircraft by his early arrival at the airport. Mr Domenico Consales (66) was still in shock over his stroke of fortune three hours after landing at Rome's Fiumicino Airport on another TWA flight from New York. His bags tagged with tickets for ill fated Flight 800, which he had thought he was on until over the Atlantic.

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