Flight to Success | Captain Zoya Agarwal | TEDxMountAbuSchool

Since Childhood I controlled my destiny, took responsibilities for actions and their consequences and realized that success was not far away. Zoya Agarwal is an AirIndia pilot in India. She was the youngest women pilot to fly a Boeing-777 in 2013. She was all over the news this January because, on 9th January 2021, she created history by flying the worlds longest air route between San Francisco & Bengaluru with an all-female flight crew.

Zoya Agarwal was also in the news in 2015 when she saved a passengers life. By turning back an Air India Boeing mid-air and landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Though the plane with 327 passengers was airborne for more than 2 hours. Zoya Agarwal decided to turn back to Delhi after the passenger was in need of urgent medical attention.

In the covid pandemic, She was the part of the Indian Government operation Vande Bharat Mission to bring back around 14,800 stranded Indians from 12 countries and was acknowledged by The Times of India as a Rising Female Aviator of India. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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