Typhoons, wildfires, missiles: Teen flies solo round world
CTV
At the age of 19, teenage pilot Zara Rutherford is set to land her single-seater Shark sport aircraft in Kortrijk, Belgium, on Monday, more than 150 days after setting out to become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the world solo.
Steer clear of massive California wildfires. Check.
Keep away from test missiles in North Korea. What? Wait.
As teenage pilot Zara Rutherford flew ever onward in a record-challenging global odyssey, she met little as strange or scary as when she tried to squeeze in between North Korean airspace and a massive cloud threatening to cut off passage for her ultralight plane.
"Well, they test missiles once in a while without warning," Rutherford said. More importantly, she was just 15 minutes from flying over one of the last places one should enter uninvited.
