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An El Al female first: Pilot takes to the sky
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- El Al's first woman pilot, Merav Schwartz, has flown her first commercial flight as a first officer from Tel, El Al spokesman Nachman Klieman said Schwartz, 33, was accepted for an El Al pilots' course in April 2000, following a 1997 deci
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"I'm not a spoiled girl from a rich family. I worked very hard to learn to fly privately. For 10 years, I never bought myself any new clothes," she said.
Schwartz is currently certified to fly the Boeing 737, but she stressed that she was not satisfied with that achievement. "I very much want to fly the jumbo, because it's such a big plane," she said.
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