Mumbai Girl Aarohi Pandit Embodies Spirit of Girl Power by Becoming First Female to Fly Across Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Mumbai, August 24, 2019:

Aarohi Pandit, a girl from Mumbai, created history on Wednesday by becoming the first woman pilot to cross both Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans in a 'Light Sports Aircraft'.

Embodying the spirit of 'girl power', the young pilot flew from Alaska's Unalakleet city across the Pacific Ocean's Bering Sea, and landed safely at the Anadyr Airport in Russia's Far East region of Chukotka at 01.54 a.m. after a stopover at Nome (Alaska). After landing, Aarohi posed for a photo beside the LSA and waved the Indian tricolour.

In mid-May this year, Aarohi, 23, became the first woman in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a LSA, much to the delight of the nation.

In the past nearly 13 months of her circumnavigation flight, she has broken and created several records, including becoming the world's first woman to complete a solo flight over the treacherous Greenland ice-cap in an LSA, and the first woman to fly all across Canada from the North East to the North West via the South of the huge country.

It may be mentioned here that Arohi is an Indian commercial pilot licence and LSA Licence holder and she launched the world's first 'all-woman team' to circumnavigate the Earth in her LSA, named "Mahi", on July 30, 2018, along with her friend and pilot, Keithair Misquitta.

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