'It's been ... challenging, but so amazing at the same time.'
"Zara's first flight in a very small airplane, was when she was three or four months old. … And frequently, she'd be given the opportunity to sit in the front, to start with, of course, on about six cushions to be able to manipulate the controls and move the aircraft around," Sam Rutherford, Zara's father and a former army helicopter pilot, told ABC News.
"When you're flying alone and suddenly this challenge comes up, I can't say, 'I'm done. I'm out. I give up.' You have to still land the plane. You have to make sure that you get down on the ground safely," she said.Constantin Zinn/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock "'Of course, that's OK. Records are meant to be broken,' I told her," The American-Afghan pilot, who finished her journey in 2017, told ABC News.
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