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On October 21, 1989, airline TAN SAHSA’s Boeing 727-200, registered as N88705, was a passenger flight en route from San José, Costa Rica, to Miami, with stops in the cities of Managua, Nicaragua, and Tegucigalpa, Honduras. At 7:53 in the morning the plane crashed into Cerro de Hula as it approached the Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa.

135 people died.

Of the 146 passengers on Flight 414, only 11 people survived. Vivian Pellas is one of them. This is her testimony of how she returned from the brink of death and how it changed her life forever as she came to understand the mission she had to fulfill.

They say that when you want to write your life story, the blank page calls for the movie of your life to start. Then . . .

you dust off your fears and count your scars, including those of your body, as well as those of your soul, you tear them open and pick at them until they bleed again.

I’ve asked myself many times, why did all of this happen?What was the purpose of experiencing what I went through?Why was I the protagonist of a story carved by pain?Today I know that happiness comes from following your heart, and I found it in my family and in the smile of a child.