Female Pilot Celebrates First Flight as Certified Captain

An Iranian female pilot who shared her first flights and her experiences while training on Instagram announced on Saturday, July 20 that she is now a fully-qualified airplane captain. In a video taken on the runway of Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, Neshat Jahandari can be seen receiving the four stripes marking her captainship, bestowed on her by her teacher, named only as “Shokrabi.”