British-Belgian teen becomes youngest woman to fly solo round the world

19-year-old lands in Belgium, becoming youngest woman to fly solo around the world

Zara Rutherford, 19, carries the Belgian and British flags on the tarmac after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Belgium, on Thursday at the completion of a record-breaking solo circumnavigation. (Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)Nineteen-year-old pilot Zara Rutherford touched down at an airfield in western Belgium on Thursday, becoming the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, as she closed the loop five mon…

A 19-year-old woman flies alone to the Guinness World Records as the youngest girl to go around the world

[NHK] Guinness World Records as the youngest female 19-year-old woman who flew a lightweight small aircraft to travel around the world for five months and succeeded in traveling around the world in a solo flight ...

Watch her voyage: youngest woman to fly solo around the world

19-year-old Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight. Rosanna Philpott looks back at her voyage.

British-Belgian teen becomes youngest woman to fly solo round the world

Zara Rutherford landed back at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium after flying 51,000 km (32,000 miles) over 52 nations since her Aug. 18 departure.

Teenager, who studied in Winchester, becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the globe

A 19-year-old, who studied in Winchester, has become the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.

19-yr-old becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world

At age 19, Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world, after landing back at her Belgian point of departure following a journey of more than 52,000 kilometers (28,000 nautical miles) across several countries and five continents