First batch of women pilots all set to fly missions on Indian Navy’s Dornier aircraft

KOCHI: The Indian Navy is all set to get its first batch of women pilots for all operational missions on the Dornier aircraft.

Three women pilots — Lieutenant Divya Sharma from Malviya Nagar in New Delhi, Lieutenant Shubhangi Swaroop from Tilhar in Uttar Pradesh) and Lieutenant Shivangi from Muzaffarpur in Bihar — completed the Dornier Operational Flying Training (DOFT) course and graduated as ‘fully operational maritime reconnaissance pilots’ at a passing out ceremony held at INS Garuda, the Naval Air Station in Kochi on Thursday. They were among the six pilots who qualified for missions on the Dornier aircraft.