Popular 27-year-old Sosoliso plane crash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi, has become a force to be reckoned with after her participation in the America’s Got Talent singing competition.
She survived the ill-fated Port Harcourt bound flight which crashed on the runway and killed 107 people, including her close friend who was sitting next to her and late Pastor Bimbo Odukoya.
Despite being involved in the crash at a young age, Okwuchi has remained courageous, confident by not letting her predicament get in the way of her happiness.
She was once quoted to have said, “I remember just saying I don’t know, but I think we should pray or something, I don’t know. We actually never got a chance. That’s the last memory I have before I blacked out.” The next thing I knew, I was waking up in Milpark Hospital, South Africa. To this day I don’t remember the actual impact of the crash.
Meanwhile, the result of the America’s Got Talent has been announced and Kechi came in sixth.
Here are six things you do not know about the plane crash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi:
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Kechi Okwuchi was born on October 29, 1989 and is the first born of a family of four.
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Kechi has had more than 100 surgeries, including skin grafts in the US as a result of the severe burns which had all over her body. Doctors placed pins to support her hands but this didn’t stop her from reaching for greatness. Her first major treatment at Milpark Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Kechi at America's Got Talent
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Two years after the plane crash, Okwuchi and her family members moved to Houston to continue her medical treatment at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, United States (US).
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It was discovered that while Kechi was in coma in the hospital, her mother sang her a popular hymn everyday which she could hear in her subconscious and when she woke up, she knew the song already.
• Kechi Okwuchi's graduation from university.
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Five years after the crash, she graduated with a First Class Degree at the University of Saint Thomas in Texas, USA in 2015. After her graduation, Okwuchi was invited into six honour societies including the International Economics Honour society.
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After graduation, she worked at a non-profit organization in Houston. She had no time for internships as she was always in and out of surgery.
• Kechi before and after the crash
