All Female Airline Pilot Crew For The First Time In Iran’s Aviation Industry (English Sub)زنان ž

All-female cockpit crew of MD-80 makes history in Iran: October 14, 2019 (Persian calendar 1398/07/22) In a first for Iranian aviation, a female captain and female first officer piloted a round trip Tehran—Mashhad flight on October 14, making them the first women to have piloted a passenger flight in Iran without the assistance of male colleagues. The past few years have seen Iran relaxing its rules on women taking top roles in its aviation industry. A woman, Farzaneh Sharafabadi, served as the CEO of flagship IranAir for more than 12 months between 2017 and 2018. Captain Neshat Jahandari and her first officer Forouz Firouzi flew 160 passengers on the flight from Tehran to the northeastern city of Mashhad, and then returned with 171 passengers to the Iranian capital. “Today is a special and unforgettable day in the Iranian aviation industry, and for the first time the guidance of the plane has been conducted by two Iranian female pilots,” Jahandari wrote on her Instagram. Prior to this all-f