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All-Women Indian Pilot Crew Charts Longest Commercial Flight
All-Women Indian Pilot Crew Charts Longest Commercial Flight
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CHENNAI, India On January 11, four women pilots boarded the cockpit of the Air India Flight 176 in San Francisco a Boeing 777 whose final destination was Bengaluru, India. The commander of the flight Captain Zoya Aggarwal, who also flew the first leg, was accompanied by co-pilots Captain Thanmei Papagiri, Captain Akanksha Sonaware and Captain Shivani Manhas.
When they touched down at Bengaluru, the four had created history by charting the longest non-stop commercial flight piloted by an all-women crew, operated by an Indian airline through the polar route via the North Pole. Besides the pilots, the flight had 12 cabin crew and around 238 passengers on board. The pilots flew over 16,000 km in a span of 17 hours. ....

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