{"id":4988,"date":"2017-12-20T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2017-12-20T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T07:07:49","slug":"ladies-sky-meet-ethiopian-airlines-pilot-led-female-intra-african-flight-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/ladies-sky-meet-ethiopian-airlines-pilot-led-female-intra-african-flight-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"LADIES OF THE SKY: Meet Ethiopian Airlines pilot that led all female intra-African flight to Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Ethiopia Airways makes history with all female crew on Lagos flight<\/em><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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December 20, 2017: Amsale Gualu, the Ethiopian Airlines pilot who a led a historic an all-female inter \u2013 Africa flight last weekend has expressed joy at the feat her team chalked.<\/em><\/h4>\n
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She was speaking after the five-and-half hour flight from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa landed at the Lagos International airport on Saturday, December 16, 2017.<\/p>\n

She told pressmen who gathered at a short ceremony at the airport about how she developed love for flying planes: \u201cI guess I developed my passion for flying when I was young, my father used to take my sister to the airport to see airplanes take off and land.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in high school also, I used to be impressed by the (pilots) uniform. And I guess that is where my passion for flying developed. After graduating from Addis Ababa University, I joined Ethiopian Airlines as a first officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I went all the way up. I flew Fokker 50 and Boeing 767 as a first officer, then I became a captain in 2010, then as a captain I flew 767 and now I\u2019m here on the 777 aircraft, the latest aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire team managing the flight from Addis Ababa comprised of women, from the pilots and cabin crew to in flight ramp operations as well as flight dispatchers on the ground. The flight was received with water canon salute in Lagos.<\/p>\n

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Again,\u00a0@<\/span>flyethiopian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has made Nigeria and Africa proud with the first international all women flight to Lagos,\u00a0#<\/span>Nigeria<\/span><\/a>. The Boeing 777-300ER flight was commanded by beautiful Captain Amsale Gualu.\u00a0#<\/span>FlyEthiopian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>ProudlyAfrican<\/span><\/a>\u00a0#<\/span>Boeing777<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n