Once is enough for 19-year-old woman about to break flight record


FILE PHOTO: Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford, 19, gestures as she speaks during a conference at a Belgian ambassador's residence in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

EGELSBACH, Germany (Reuters) - As 19-year-old pilot Zara Rutherford nears the end of her record-breaking, around-the-world odyssey, she is not sure she would attempt the feat again.

The British-Belgian teenager landed in the German village of Egelsbach on Wednesday, one stop short of completing a journey that will make her the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the globe.

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