‘It was a sweet, tender voice’: the pilot who fell for his air traffic controller – before ever seeing her

Alfredo Bravo had a job he loved and was determined never to be grounded by marriage and kids.

Then a voice from the control tower changed everything Alfredo Bravo had landed aeroplanes in a lot of sticky situations – as a bush pilot in Chilean Patagonia and as a commercial pilot in rural China – but it was a singular voice floating over the radio waves from air traffic control in Santiago, Chile, that set…