Capt. Zoya Agarwal: The Girl Who Soared High

Brut India

She commanded a 17-hour long flight, the world’s longest air route. Hamdard Safi celebrates Captain Zoya Agarwal, who never gave up on her dream despite all the hurdles.

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00:00We are used to long flights in Air India, but there were so many check in the boxes

00:26for this particular flight because we were flying over the North Pole and for that we

00:31have crew training, pilot's training, you have to have special equipment to be carried

00:38on board the flight which consists of polar suits because when you are flying over the

00:43North Pole you have, you know, extreme temperature.

01:00I remember asking my parents for a birthday gift.

01:03I wanted a telescope.

01:07When I told my parents about it, they were a little scandalized, but they gave me eventually.

01:14My mom cried, she said, humare ko kaisi beti mili hai, kash humare ko koi normal beti mili

01:24hoti.

01:26All they wanted me to do was get married.

01:40I used to, I remember, get up at 6 in the morning, go to my college and I would go at

01:45the other end of the city, do my aviation classes, come back home by 9.30.

01:55I remember my first flight was from Delhi to Dubai.

01:58That was a special moment in my life because that told me the power of dream, the power

02:08of not giving up.

02:18I'm a pilot.

02:20An airplane seat does not know, the commander seat or the first officer seat, that it's

02:26a boy or a girl flying.

02:29The job has to be done.

02:35My end goal is to make billions of Zoyas out there who can follow their dreams and not

02:44kneel down, no matter how much of the environment is against them.

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