89 years on, Borivali-based female pilot to ‘replicate’ JRD’s Karachi-Mumbai flight from Bhuj
On October 15, 1932, industrialist and aviator JRD Tata undertook the first-ever flight from Karachi to Mumbai. Eighty nine years on, Borivali-based pilot Aarohi Pandit, who flew solo over the Atlantic in 2019 in her single-engine aircraft, is set to replicate the feat on Friday, albeit from Bhuj, the closest airfield in India to Karachi.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Pandit, 25, said, “I will be taking off from Bhuj between 9 am and 10 am and will reach Mumbai by 4 pm with a halt at Ahmedabad for refuelling.”
Pandit will be flying in her Sinus 912 Pipistrel – the same aircraft she used to fly over The Atlantic.
