Plane crash survivor: I was saved by divine intervention

The only flight attendant on board a plane crash that killed 71 people – including members of a Brazilian soccer team – believes she was saved by divine intervention, she revealed in new interview.

Ximena Suarez was one of only six survivors after the ill-fated LaMia airlines flight plunged into the Colombian jungle near Medellin on Nov. 28, 2016.

“Some people tell me, ‘Luckily you saved yourself.’ For me it is not luck, (it) is the will of God,” the mom-of-two told Spanish newspaper El Pais, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported.

“We didn’t have any idea. If I’d known, I would have acted differently,” she said. “No one knows how they’re going to act in an emergency, no one is prepared. As cabin crew we trained, we did a simulation, but when it arrives it’s difficult.”

In January, Ximena launched a GoFundMe page to seek donations to help offset her medical costs for treatment of injuries including a broken hand and ankle.

She also has received psychological treatment, but said she still struggles to sleep and sometimes takes pills.

“Sometimes at night I get nightmares, I can’t sleep. I try to leave the pills, but I can’t because I wake up in the night, so I have to continue taking them,” she said. “It’s just one of those things, but I know I have to be strong.”

The pilot was heard in a recording telling an air-traffic controller that the plane was out of fuel and calling a mayday.

The plane is believed to have run out of fuel because the crew searched for a player’s video game before taking off from Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.

Nineteen players on the Chapecoense team perished in the disater.

Only three players — Jakson Follmann, Helio Neto and Alan Ruschel — survived, but Ruschel is the only one who has been able to resume playing.

Crew member Erwin Tumiri and journalist Rafael Henzel also survived the tragedy.