Is called Silvia De Bon and has 22 years old the pilot who made an emergency landing on Dolomites. The plane she piloted landed at 2,100 meters of altitude on the mountain group of Lagoraiin Trentino. Brother unharmed Matthias De Bon and his fiancée Giorgia Qualizza who were on board. She was held in hospital for checkups. After landing, the three reached the bivouac safely “Paul and Nicholas”. So, around 16.25they sounded the alarm. According to initial information, the emergency landing would have been necessary due to a engine power drop. The PiperPa 28 is a private plane owned by theAutoclub Belluno. L’National Flight Safety Association and the power of attorney of Trent have opened an investigation into the incident.
The Piper PA 28 of Autoclub Belluno
Silvia De Bon instead he talked about what happened in two interviews with The print and al Corriere della Sera. “We were passing just below the summit of Cima Cecebut between the cold and the rarefied air the engine has lost power. I was at approx 80 kilometers per hour and I tried to pull my plane up by moving the clochebut after iThe engine loses power at a certain speed it starts to fall. I thought to myself “c…o, now I crash”. Then I just attempted to smooth the plane to the slope. From the moment of the bang to the next instant I have a vacuum», he says today from the hospital in Trent where she is hospitalized for tests. The maneuver you performedit is usually wrong, because the more you pull, the more the speed decreases and the plane falls. Knowing to go against the mountain, I went out of my way to land belly of the plane to the slope. If I had crashed straight, I would have destroyed the nose and the consequences would have been worse. The same if I had tried to go back: I would have hit the rock ridge. The right thing was probably to do so».
Rescue in the Dolomites
The pilot now has some wounds on the face: «I don’t know how I made them because the glass of the plane seems intact. Maybe I hit the dashboard. I have some pain in my back and ribs. Nothing serious”. But she denies aircraft ignition problems: «It was a misunderstanding. When we left Trento the engine was cold and it was hard to start. But this fact is not connected or connectable with what happened in flight”. Silvia’s father, Ettore, would like her to stop flying: «But I don’t listen to him. If everyone involved in road accidents stopped driving what would happen?”. Silvia, on the other hand, has a dream: «Become an airline pilot. For the moment I have the Italian general aviation patent and the US one. To become an airline pilot I still have to study, but I’m ready. I want to fly».
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