“Mayday, mayday, mayday… Papa, Tango, India, Romeo, Juliett is cayendo entre Alenquer y la pista California”.
Logró launches an SOS by radio. Pilot Antonio Sena, 36 years old, disappears the 28th of January in the most remote of the Brazilian Amazon when transporting miners to an illegal mine. The only engine of his plane is ready to go. Concentrated on getting around, mentally resting the flight simulator hours. “Thank you to God, I found a little valley”, explained by phone from Brazil the Monday passed.
Planeando, found a house in that water green of tupidas copas. And while playing golf, we lost speed. Elevó la nariz de la Cessna 210 y ¡zas!… Estaba en tierra, empapado de gasolina, pero vivo. Consciente. Entero.
During the 38 days following a protagonist’s odyssey of an adventure novel that would allow the new fever of the gold that lives in Brazil to be consumed, the illegal mines that are so lucrative while contaminating the world tropical forest. His poems are chosen in the middle of the self with decades or hundreds of earrings (gold seekers). Lugares donde nadie usa dinero, todo se paga en oro. An illegal negotiation moves between 20 and 30 annual installments. And the tolerance is as much as a couple of years, Roraima, a State without a single mine, exported 194 kilos of gold.
Que sobreviviera casi indemne -perdió 26 kilo— surprende inclus a los que conocen esta zona entre los Estados de Pará y Amapá. A survival course in the same way that this time will bring vital results.
Dormitory beds for the trees to avoid animal embassies. It is a marvelous thing that is not topped with any of the great depressors. Ni a jaguar, ni cocodrilos ni anacondas. “To avoid attacks, start a road trip with the hojas. Si vas en silencio, puedes importunarlos sin querer ”, detalla. Acaba to reunite with his mother, who by the coronavirus did not return on March 6 to Santarém, the Amazon city of creation.
The military rescue teams were present when Sena was located by a family of chestnut collectors. The clan led by Maria Jorge, with a mediocre sail in the office, is one of the miles of families that explored Amazon in a sustainable way. Y legal. The pilot carried the allegory of his life; his salvadors, a susto descomunal.
After the accident, I searched the remains of the plane as I ordered the rescue manuals. When passing new days of sobriety, even if it depends on itself. Take a truck to the eastbound lane where the aeronautical map that lies in the mobile must have a pair of access pistes in the zone.
Estaba demasiado debil para cazar. To comrade, observe the monos “If they come some silver fruit, you too”. A few more points while getting lost. “I have three eggs a week, the only protein I have. Deer blue, clear and clear. And found cocoa four weeks ”, remembers. Never let go.
The pilot takes place in a specially valued zone of the Amazon, by the Maicuru Biological Reserve. Its biodiversity is a joya that states that it has the maximum protection of the Brazilian army, explains the forest engineer Jakeline Pereira, 40 years old, by phone from Belém (Pará). “Human presence is totally forbidden because it has endemic species that do not exist in any other place on the planet,” said the NGO Imazon specialist.
Sena, which has 2,400 hours of fuel, is headed to an illegal mine on May 13 that is within the natural reserve. The accident occurred the second day of the year; el primero fue la víspera. “Only in my life have I been in a mine, but the porch does not lie down to get off the runway,” the pilot explained.
In exchange, the engineer Pereira knows the lie. “Hice amistad con una garimpeira of allies and thanks to that in 2009 we will open the gates ”, says about a journey in which he elaborated a socio-economic study on mining access. Because, when legislators exercise legal protection over this natural reserve, they seek redress and restitution. Y allí siguen. It’s an illegal pero tolerated. “I agree very well, I like 400 garimpeiros, tiendas, algunas mujeres, cocineras, alguna prostituta ”. As it is not clear to you that this is not the case, it is up to you to decide what to do next. In the reserve reserve, I have 600 miners.
Sena despego in his minuscule plane of Alenquer, a city of the Orillas of the Amazon. Aterrizaría in one of those illegal pistes that do not appear in the conventional maps, pero tienen nombre, Californië, for another fever of the gold. The mayor of Brazil fought in the XVIII in Minas Gerais.
Dice the aviator who accepts the job -transportar brandbaar y víveres hasta la mina— because the coronavirus destroyed the deal that with all my might created to regress to Brazil during a pilot phase in Africa, in Chad. “Open a restaurant and artisanal restaurant, but in two months … ‘Pum !, the pandemic'”. Y añade: “Esas circunstancias me llevaron a hacer los vuelos”, añade.
The demand for gold has been dispelled by the increase in international prices and it implies more apostate men to meet a few who are allowed to live with holiness, more seminarians and more pilots. Illegal mining pays more than commercial aviation and aerial incidents in Amazon are multiplied. The survivor will ensure that nothing is regressed at all.
Explain the engineer that, as the deforestation that causes the illegal mining is not extensively, the satellites do not detect easily. But it is very dañina. “Contaminate the rivers, tyrant alli mercurio that usan to separate the oro, the water cambia of color and contribute directly to the destruction” of the flora and fauna. Alli minero alquila a plot that explodes, some lasting years. “We saw people living there for 20 years without going to the city.”
The odyssey of the pilot entered the final phase when he returned a motorbike through days and days of solitude, fire, hamburger and strong forces. Eran casket collectors. “Found a white blank with his material, comedy … and the first of them”, senates Emo. “In principle, I have ten children, the children are chestnuts. Another appearance, more hapless and smoky in his camp ”. Insist on his infinite gratitude to Maria Jorge, to her wives and sisters. It is a parade that will be saved by a family that legally exploits the river in the State Reserve of Paris, where the collection is allowed.
Tras alimentarlo, pidieron socorro por radio. The pilot lost in Amazon was still alive. List to return to home. About 38 days ago, the helicopter helicopter picked up a team of bombers and soldiers. With that, he ended up in his odyssey.
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