An Italian couple reportedly survived two plane crashes on the same day about 25 miles apart when the couple boarded two small planes flown by friends on Sunday.
“To be honest, I feared the worst for a while. “It was really a miracle that we were both alive,” 30-year-old Stefano Pirilli told the Italian newspaper Il giornale di Vicenza on Tuesday.
According to local media, the unusual story is said to have occurred late Sunday afternoon in Turin, Italy, after the man and his fiancée Antonietta Demasi, 22, met with two pilot friends for dinner and a ride in their respective planes.
Except that at the time of return they would have boarded the ultralight powered aircraft from two airfields almost simultaneously, while the plane in which the thirty-year-old was found would have had difficulties just 200 meters from a runway. Landing.
Due to a bad maneuver or a technical problem, it suddenly crashed in a field, the thirty-year-old continued, telling Mail Online that they had recently been enveloped in fog and darkness.
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“We were hampered by the weather and time: the fog started rising as the temperature dropped, and then suddenly it was night,” he told British media.
At that time, the second aircraft, a Tecnam P92 Echo Super, attempted to land about forty kilometers away but ended up in a pole, injuring its two passengers.
The 22-year-old woman escaped with a broken pelvis, while the pilot suffered severe head trauma, according to Il giornale di Vicenza.
“This was Antonietta's first flying experience and I am very sorry for what happened. The day started so well and we both ended up crashing on separate planes,” the man complained to Mail Online, counting himself lucky that things didn't get any worse.