Photos of The Day: Meet The First Female Pilot For National Airline At Only 24 Yrs

While we have our own Captain Irene Koki at Kenya Airways as the first female captain in Africa to fly the Boeing 787 Dream liner, Rwanda have their own Esther Mbabazi who happens to be the first female pilot in the country.

She recently told CNN that she knew she wanted to be a pilot at a tender age of 4. Amazingly she became a pilot for the national carrier RwandAir, at only 24!

“I’d never been inside a cockpit but I used to see a plane in the sky and I imagined that thing must be flown by someone,” she tells CNN.

Check her out here

She says being in the sky gives a person a whole other view. “You get to see what they call a bird’s eye view of everything.”

She says she knows she is constantly being closely watched because of her gender.

It’s her dream that her  achievements can provide inspiration to other women who might not think they can attain their dreams jobs.

Photo Courtesy: CNN

You can read her inspiring story here

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