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How a flight attendant became the first female pilot for a commercial airline in Côte d’Ivoire

How a flight attendant became the first female pilot for a commercial airline in Côte d’Ivoire

Steadily rising through the ranks, Aya Gertrude Konan is now the first female commercial pilot in Cote d’Ivoire. The Ivorian’s passion for aviation was stoked at a young age, she told Afrique Magazine. “I must have been eight years old. At the beginning of the school year, on the form we filled out, I wrote…

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