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March 10, 2010,
National carrier Air India created history when at a little past
midnight on Monday when the first all-women crew ultra long-haul
B777-200LR NonStop flight from Mumbai to
New York. Flight AI 141 was the first of the 22
all-women crew flights operated by Air
India
across its domestic and international network, to mark International
Women’s Day.
Captain Rashmi
Miranda and Captain Sunita Narula were the Commanders on AI 141, along
with Captain Swati Rawal and Captain Neha Kulkarni as First Officers.
Mrs Harpreet A De. Singh, Head-QMS carried out a Line Observation Safety
Audit.
The flight was
dispatched by Ms. Nandita Deshpande and the Load and Trim Sheet was
prepared by Ms. Ferzin Kuruvilla. The duration of this flight was
approximately 14 hours and was operated with two sets of crew.
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Air India
women crew also operated five other flights on Air India international routes. These
were the Airbus A330 flight AI 801 on the Mumbai – Jeddah sector
operated by Captain M Bedi and Captain Sonia, the Airbus A310 flights AI
815/816 on the Hyderabad-Dammam-Chennai routes flown by Captain Trisha
Mohan and Captain Thanmai Papagari, and flights IC 573/574 on the
Chennai – Colombo – Chennai route operated by Captain Deepa and Captain
Sonia Jain.
Air India
has a large contingent of 136 women pilots flying its fleet of wide and
narrow body aircraft on international and domestic routes. Women
constitute nearly 19 per cent of the total workforce of NACIL. In
addition Air India has women working in the areas of flight
dispatchers, aircraft maintenance engineers, safety and quality
auditors, cabin crew, doctors, technical officers, simulator maintenance
engineers and ground instructors. All form part of a highly skilled,
technically proficient team of women at Air
India.
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