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Meet the teen pilot who became the youngest woman to circle the globe solo

by: Brian Althimer

Posted: Jan 21, 2022 / 07:05 PM CST

Updated: Jan 21, 2022 / 07:05 PM CST

by: Brian Althimer

Posted: Jan 21, 2022 / 07:05 PM CST

Updated: Jan 21, 2022 / 07:05 PM CST

19-year-old Zara Rutherford joins Lisa Dent on Chicago’s Afternoon News all the way from Belgium to describe her experience in the skies as she became the youngest female to fly around the world solo.

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Belgium-British teenage pilot Zara Rutherford holds up her certificates after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Kortrijk, Belgium,…

Belgium-British teenage pilot Zara Rutherford holds up her certificates after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Kortrijk, Belgium, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. The 19-year-old Belgium-British pilot Zara Rutherford has set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday, 155 days after she departed. Rutherford will find herself in the Guinness World Records book after setting the mark that had been held by 30-year-old American aviator Shaesta Waiz since 2017. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)