Luciano Rivera
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Luciano Rivera was a local mechanic injured in the Prinair
accident in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
, when the plane fell over an area where he and his friends were playing cards.
Out of the crash's survivors, Rivera was the worst injured one. He was on the burn center at Centro Medico in Rio Piedras (a San Juan area) for several months.
He became media sensation nationally in Puerto Rico because of the accident. Reports about his recovery were followed by local newspapers and television.
Rivera was able to sue Prinair successfully for the amount of $10,000 dollars. He was one of a handful of survivors that got money settlements from the small national air company. Prinair would later cease flying.
Luciano Rivera's life went downwards after he got the ten thousand dollar sum. He was an alcoholic, and he faced heart trouble later in life. Living in the impoverished Residencial Las Casas
area, he came back to the limelight towards the late 1980s as his condition deteriorated. Towards the end of his life, he became so sick that doctors told him he could eventually end up without any feeling in the lower parts of his body, so he had an emergency heart surgery in February 1988, during which he died.
Prinair
Prinair was a Puerto Rican airline. It was Puerto Rico's domestic and international flag carrier airline for almost two decades.- History :Services began in 1966, under the name Aerolíneas de Ponce , with Aero Commanders...
accident in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santurce is a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico.-Summary:Santurce is one of the top ten most populated areas of the island holding Miramar, Loíza, Isla Grande, Barrio Obrero, and Condado as main cultural hot spots for art, music, cuisine, fashion, hotels, technology, multimedia, film, textile and...
, when the plane fell over an area where he and his friends were playing cards.
Out of the crash's survivors, Rivera was the worst injured one. He was on the burn center at Centro Medico in Rio Piedras (a San Juan area) for several months.
He became media sensation nationally in Puerto Rico because of the accident. Reports about his recovery were followed by local newspapers and television.
Rivera was able to sue Prinair successfully for the amount of $10,000 dollars. He was one of a handful of survivors that got money settlements from the small national air company. Prinair would later cease flying.
Luciano Rivera's life went downwards after he got the ten thousand dollar sum. He was an alcoholic, and he faced heart trouble later in life. Living in the impoverished Residencial Las Casas
Residencial Las Casas
Residencial Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, more commonly known as Residencial Las Casas or Las Casas, is a public housing complex located in San Juan, Puerto Rico consisting of 417 housing units. It is under the management of the Puerto Rico Housing Authority and is under the federal housing program...
area, he came back to the limelight towards the late 1980s as his condition deteriorated. Towards the end of his life, he became so sick that doctors told him he could eventually end up without any feeling in the lower parts of his body, so he had an emergency heart surgery in February 1988, during which he died.