article_snippet: A niece of one of the victims of the Germanwings crash is haunted by the 'atrocious' thought that A niece of one of the victims of the Germanwings crash uncle spent the last eight minutes of her uncle life knowing her uncle was going to die.
article_snippet: Sandrine Driessens, niece of 59-year-old Belgian father and grandfather Christian Driessens, said that the thought was 'very hard'.
article_snippet: her uncle certainly knew that her uncle was living her uncle last moments
article_snippet: and it's very hard to hear that the descent of the aircraft lasted eight minute,' her uncle told La Provence newspaper.
article_snippet: Although Christian Driessens' niece said Christian Driessens' niece was haunted by the idea that Christian Driessens' niece knew Christian Driessens' niece was going to die for eight minutes while the plane was descending, an aviation expert has said that it is more likely that the passengers and crew were calm and did not realise that the passengers and crew were in mortal danger . '
article_snippet: For eight long minutes, Christian Driessens' niece was dying.
highlights_snippet: Sandrine Driessens, niece of 59-year-old Belgian father and grandfather Christian, said the thought is 'very hard'
  'For eight long minutes, he was dying.