Zara Rutherford, a teenaged pilot, flew around the world in a record-challenging adventure filled with many hurdles. Zara avoided a typhoon in the Philippines, massive California wildfires, test missiles in North Korea, and more. At one point she tried to squeeze in between North Korean airspace and a massive cloud threatening to cut off passage for her plane.
She was just 15 minutes from flying over one of the last places one should enter uninvited and Rutherford said “Well, they test missiles once in a while without warning,” At that time she radioed her control team to ask if she could cut the corner over North Korea to get to Seoul. “Straight away they said: ‘Whatever you do, do not go into North Korean airspace!’”
At the young age of 19, she is expected to land her single-seater Shark sport aircraft in Kortrijk, Belgium, on Monday. She set out on the journey more than 150 days ago to become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the world solo. The previous record was set by an American aviator Shaesta Waiz at the age of 30.
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