She had just returned from the United States where she also obtained her American pilot license. Silvia De Bon, 22 years old, is a young pilot with a passion, that of flying, which she has been cultivating for years, as shown by her photos on her social profiles, many of which portray her on the runway or next to different types of aircraft.
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She loves flying so much that her father Ettore, after the accident, hopes that after the “miracle” she will give up this activity, “even if she always tells me that it is more likely to die in a road accident than in flight”. The few lines of text that accompany her photos on her social networks speak of planes as if they were children, “my child” she writes in a post on Instagram.
As the engine began to lose power, his small plane began to crash. In those moments, the young woman originally from Longarone, a town of 5,000 souls in the province of Belluno, really thought about crashing. But just like a Top Gun, she had the lucidity and quick reflexes to attempt an emergency landing on Lagorai, in the heart of the Trentino Dolomites.
The plane piloted by Silvia De Bon landed in the Trentino Dolomites
Despite flying at an altitude of about 2,100 metres, he performed a pure glide, landing about 100 meters downstream from the Paolo and Nicola bivouac along the Val di Fiemme side, saving a young couple made up of his brother Matteo, 27 years old, and his fiancée, Giorgia Qualizza, 28, all three originally from Longarone.
Now she is hospitalized in the Trento hospital in the short-term surgery department. With the collar around her neck, she dreams of obtaining a commercial license, and to do this she must accumulate hours of experience. While waiting to reach the coveted dream of her: «becoming an airline pilot, like the Ryanair ones».
