Minor Vidal, the sole survivor of Aerocon’s plane, returned to fly. In his Office in Trinidad received the news that he is the personality of the year, he thanks God and the Bolivian people for having been with him at the worst moment

Friday 9, around 8:50, Vidal, from Chuquisaca and 35 years old, found his rescuers.With obvious pain by the Rossendy lagoon shore, he waved a cloth to draw the attention of the two boats of the Navy passing more than 400 meters away from him.

At that time, what most caught the attention was the cut in his right temple. Now, there is only a scar which may well be valued as a trophy of war or the footprint of the worst ‘scratch’ of life. “I don’t have any trauma, even I am even surprised how I healed from the five broken ribs”, says Minor and believes that if he survived the accident it is because God has a mission prepared for him, that he still does not know what it is. “That is why I never had the intention of locking myself inside four walls to lament the bad memory of the accident,” he said with a voice of steel.

Minor does not want to disappoint the millions of Bolivians who have prayed so that he is alive; when it was known that a body among the remains of the damaged aircraft lacked. “Many people I do not know, greets me when I walk in the street and reminds me that they have prayed for me” says, and returned to read the letter in which El Deber has nominated him as one of the personalities of the year. And he still does not believe.

And he returned to flying. Minor needs to fly because the plane is the main means of transport to carry out its work. He visits the Amazonian people of the country, where the aircraft is more common than a pickup truck because the roads are scarce or impassable for much time of the year. That knows Mariela Llanos, which comes with their two children to the door of her home, at Nicolás Suárez street, to wave away her husband every time he travels for a few days.

http://www.eldeber.com.bo/2011/2011-12-06/vernotaahora.php?id=111205214512

Well deserved recognition to a man who’s grown as a person. Kudos to El Deber!