The
following incident took place on April 2017 and was widely reported in Greece.
26 year old Sergeant Vasiliki Plexida was the only survivor of the Greek Army
helicopter crash in Sarantaporo that left four officers dead on Wednesday, and
she recounted the cause of the accident. She was one of the five passengers of
the fatal UH-1H crash and was hospitalized at the 424 Military Hospital in
Thessaloniki. She suffered from a pelvis fracture and injuries to her hands,
legs and neck.
“We
were flying low. We fell into fog, visibility was very limited, near zero”, were
the first words the survivor told reporters.
“The
helicopter touched the cables of the PPC (Public Power Corporation) and lost
its balance. Everything happened in fractions of a second.
With the impact on
the ground, I lost my senses”, Plexida said.
“When
I recovered my senses a while later, it was like waking up after a nightmare,
but with unbearable pain throughout my body”, she recounted.
Plexida
recalled that she was fastened to her seat, which catapulted out of the
helicopter the moment it hit the ground; this is probably what saved her life.
According
to an expert who spoke on Skai television, when the helicopter was tangled in
the PPC cables, the oscillation might have caused the detachment of the seat.
PPC workers who arrived first on the spot after a call that the power was cut
in the area, said that they found Plexida standing and in a state of shock. The
Ministry of Defense announced a three-day mourning for the loss of the four Greek
Armed Forces officers.
There
is more to this story, however.
Close
friends and family of Vasiliki (or Vicky), and Vasiliki herself has confirmed,
that a miracle of the Virgin Mary took place that day. They spoke of her deep
faith and her close relationship to the nuns of the Monastery of Panagia Evangelistria
Akrotiriani in Serifos. It is even said that after this helicopter flight, she
was gonna take leave and visit the nuns at the monastery.
When
the helicopter went down and no one knew of the fate of the passengers, someone
who knew Vasiliki called the monastery and asked the nuns to pray for her
because they were worried. They found Vasiliki alone alive at the scene of the
crash. Vasiliki said that as the helicopter was falling, a woman in red clothes
appeared next to her. She interpreted this to be the Virgin Mary.
Could
this more accurately explain her survival of this dooming crash from which she
technically should not have survived. The removal of the seat was done with surgical precision.
A specialist in the army said that 1200 rivets hold it, and it would take days with
tools to remove it. Not only that, but the seat landed 20 meters away from the
crash, and landed on an oak tree. And when she landed, she was turned away from
the debris of the crash, allowing her not to look. This is why she was able to
remain calm and wait until they found her. The woman in red then told her: “The
man coming is coming for you”. Then She left. It was an employee of PPC, who
came to check why the power had gone out. Vasiliki reported that she felt warm
and safe in the presence of the woman.
When
Vasiliki was in the hospital, the doctors said it would take months for her to
recover. But the woman in red clothing appeared again to her and told her to
not worry, because she was going to quickly recover. She was also told to
spread the news in order to strengthen the faith of people in the world.
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