He thought “Now I crash”, then he followed the air, or perhaps, as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry would say, he thought that «in life there are no solutions. There are forces on the move: you have to create them, and the solutions come later».
Silvia De Bon is a 22-year-old girl with an immense passion for flying. He was flying over the peaks of the Lagorai Dolomites with his Piper when the engine lost power due to the cold and rarefied air and began to drop in revs. He tried to lift it up but there was nothing to do, so he chose to risk not to crash: he glided with the wind, put the plane parallel to the slope and slid it towards the snow of the mountains to do it belly landing. It takes courage. And Silvia with her 22 years had it.
The plane landed with a crash, they were traveling with her brother Mattia of 27 years with his girlfriend Giorgia Qualizza of 28. They lost consciousness, Silvia doesn’t remember anything about the impact, but about when she woke up with her face full of blood. All three passengers, however, exited the aircraft virtually unharmed. Landing in the snow at 2,100 meters – but only 100 meters lower than the «Paolo and Nicola» bivouac in Val di Fiemme, they called the emergency services and the Belluno airport from which they had left for a «post-Christmas» trip and waited for help.
Silvia is now in the hospital in Trento with a neck brace and some injuries to her face, she says she is afraid to ask her brother and fiancée what they felt, she says her father would like him to stop, but she – who works at the hotel reception Alaska of Cortina d’Ampezzo – and dedicates every free minute to accumulating flight hours (he has just obtained his patent in America), says that there is no mention of quitting: «If I have an accident – says al Veneto Courier – I don’t get scared, I have the determination, I want to become an airline pilot. It could have happened to anyone.” But not everyone, of course, would have been capable of his cold blood.
Source: Vanity Fair
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