Osaka - Japan’s first female airliner captain of JAL Express Co made her maiden flight from Osaka to Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday. Before her departure from Itami airport, Ari Fuji, 42, said, ‘‘I’m happy. I feel tense but I will make efforts for safe flight.’’ Her plane with a crew of four and 112 passengers took off the airport at 8:20 a.m.
Fuji passed the screening by the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry earlier in the month after promotion training with a license of airline transport pilot, which she obtained in February 2008. She joined JAL Express, a wholly owned by Japan Airlines International Co, in 1999, with pilot’s licenses both for private and commercial aircraft and started flying as a co-pilot the following year.
Source: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japans-1st-female-captain-makes-maiden-flight
No comments:
Post a Comment