Bengaluru: Said to be Karnataka’s first Muslim woman pilot, 25-year-old Saarah Hameed Ahmed has defied religious and gender stereotypes to become a First Officer in low-cost carrier SpiceJet. “My parents (her father is a professional photographer, mother a homemaker) always stressed on education,” says Saarah.
Having done her schooling and pre-university in the city, she wanted to pursue something that involved Physics and travelling. At 17, after mulling over astronomy, journalism and aeronautical engineering, a seminar by an Australian aviation academy set things on course.
She enrolled at a flying school in Florida, U.S., changed to another school mid-way after being unable to bear high costs, and managed to pass the course in 2009, being one of two Muslim women in the batch.
08/03/15 KC Deepika/The Hindu
Having done her schooling and pre-university in the city, she wanted to pursue something that involved Physics and travelling. At 17, after mulling over astronomy, journalism and aeronautical engineering, a seminar by an Australian aviation academy set things on course.
She enrolled at a flying school in Florida, U.S., changed to another school mid-way after being unable to bear high costs, and managed to pass the course in 2009, being one of two Muslim women in the batch.
08/03/15 KC Deepika/The Hindu
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