Her dad died in plane crash. Now she becomes a pilot herself: “Just before his device exploded, he said:” Give my cap to Gwendolyne. Tell her that I like to see her “”

Her father died as an air force pilot in a crash, eleven days before she was born. Gwendolyne Willekens Coppenholle (16) has never known her dad. Yet she wants to follow him. “I want to fly,” she announced as soon as she could talk. Now it becomes serious. On Saturday she will participate in the preselection of the Belgian air cadets. Don’t it fear striking the same fate? And what does her mum think of it?

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