An Indian woman has become the youngest female commander of a Boeing 777 aircraft in the world.
The 30-year-old's achievement has been widely reported in India, where she flies for commercial airline Air India.
"From a child, I always wanted to be a pilot, although I didn’t have much guidance on how to become a pilot," she told Indian news.
"My parents have always been very supportive even though there were people telling them not to send me to flying lessons and the fees were a lot for them to pay at that time, but they managed."
She revealed in the interview that before taking command of the 777, she had the opportunity to captain a 737, but decided to wait a while to achieve her dream of commanding the bigger jet.
A Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, while the 737 is a short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airline.
Divya completed her pilot training at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi, aged just 19 years old. She soon earned a job at Air India in 2006, according to Business Standard. She regularly flies to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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