Teen makes 1st Asia stop in bid for female solo flight record
The Straits Times|December 12, 2021
Teen pilot Zara Rutherford landed in South Korean capital Seoul yesterday from Russia, in her first Asia stop in an attempt to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.
Teen makes 1st Asia stop in bid for female solo flight record

In August, the 19-year-old British-Belgian departed from Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on her 51,000km journey, which is to span five continents and 52 countries, including the United States, Russia and Colombia.

“It has been challenging,” she told reporters at Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport after arriving from Russian city Vladivostok in her bespoke Shark ultralight plane, the world’s fastest microlight.

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