The only survivor of a plane crash in
Vietnam which killed 29 people has relived in harrowing detail how she
clung to life for a week in the jungle before being rescued.
Dutch
native Annette Herfkens was travelling with her fiancé on board Vietnam
Airlines Flight 474 on November 14, 1992, when it crashed into a
mountain.
The then 31-year-old survived alone for a week before being rescued by local police.
Now
55, Herfkens has revealed how she drank rainwater from sponges to stay
alive and refused to look at her fiancé's corpse while waiting to be
rescued.
'Everything hurt and I couldn't move,' she told The New York Post,
recalling the moment she awoke around four hours after the crash to
find her partner dead, still in his seat, with a 'sweet little smile on
his lips'.
'Shock must have set in because I don't remember crawling out of the plane.
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