Woman pilot to repeat JRD Tata's first maiden flight moment after 89 years

Women are foraying into all domains, which were till then were considered as male bastions. proving this right, the world's first woman pilot Aarohi Pandit, who crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean in a Light Sports Aircraft, will relive JRD's first maiden flight moment again after 89 years on October 15.

Bhuj (Gujarat): The Bhuj airport in Gujarat will witness an important incident on Friday. On this day in 1932, JRD Tata, had successfully completed the first commercial flight flying of Tata Airlines from Karachi to Mumbai. Aarohi Pandit will repeat the latter's feat only to relive the glorious moment. This initiative has been taken up by the Indian Woman Pilot Association. Aarohi Pandit, the world's first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA), will fly solo in a plane to Mumbai's Juhu airport from Bhuj.

The flight was a single-engine De Haviland Pass Moth aircraft. Aarohi will fly with the same capacity aircraft, which was used by JRD Tata. During this, Aarohi will reach Mumbai by the same route as JRD Tata had used 89 years ago.

Mehul Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Sumeru Aviation Services, Ahmedabad-based air travel service provider, said in a telephonic conversation with ETV Bharat that during the flight less than 60 litres of petrol will be used for a range of about 500 nautical miles and a journey of five hours.

Aarohi Pandit will fly from the Bhuj runway, rebuilt in 72 hours by the women of Madhapar village in Kutch, between India and Pakistan. She will also pay tribute to these women.