When she staggered from the burning wreckage of an air force plane that had slammed into Peru's Amazon jungle, killing 74 people, Keila Malpartida knew she had beaten death - again.
It was the second plane crash that Malpartida, a 22-year-old air force flight attendant, survived with minor injuries."It's as if your life passes in a second, and in that moment you only think of God and your family," Malpartida, who suffered a concussion, said Friday in her room in Lima's Air Force Hospital. "You ask for the strength to keep going."
Despite the accidents, she said she plans to keep flying.
The Boeing 737, chartered by the U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum to shuttle oil workers, slammed into the a jungle swamp late Tuesday with 87 people on board shortly before landing at the oil camp of Andoas, near the Ecuadorean border, Occidental said.
The cause of the accident has not been determined.
The 13 survivors were carried on stretchers to Andoas, 625 miles north of Lima.
Malpartida also survived a 1994 plane crash in Peru in which six people died.