For First Time Ever, Zimbabwe’s Major Airline Features First All-Female Pilot Crew

Captain Elizabeth Simbi Petros and Captain Chipo M. Matimba Photo credit: Air Zimbabwe
Captain Elizabeth Simbi Petros and Captain Chipo M. Matimba
Photo credit: Air Zimbabwe

Harare, Zimbabwe — History was recently made in the country of Zimbabwe when, for the first time ever, an all-female flight deck crew took command of an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 737 flying from Harare to Victoria Fall. They were the pilots, not the flight attendants. Photos posted to Facebook by the airline show Captain Chipo M. Matimba and Captain Elizabeth Simbi Petros smiling in the cockpit of the B737-200, preparing to take flight. Read More via Black News