{"id":443004,"date":"2021-10-16T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443004"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:20:01","slug":"89-years-on-borivali-based-female-pilot-to-replicate-jrds-karachi-mumbai-flight-from-bhuj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/89-years-on-borivali-based-female-pilot-to-replicate-jrds-karachi-mumbai-flight-from-bhuj\/","title":{"rendered":"89 years on, Borivali-based female pilot to \u2018replicate\u2019 JRD\u2019s Karachi-Mumbai flight from Bhuj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Indian Express, Pandit, 25, said, \u201cI 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pandit will be flying in her Sinus 912 Pipistrel \u2013 the same aircraft she used to fly over The Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u201cI 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.\u201d Pandit will be flying in her Sinus 912 Pipistrel \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}