A 23-year-old girl from Jeddah has become the second Saudi Arabian woman to obtain a commercial pilot license.
Yasmeen Mohammad Al Mainmani, who has been dreaming about becoming a pilot from the time she was seven years old, trained in flying academies in Jordan and the US and recently became the second Saudi women to receive a commercial pilot license, Gulf News reported.
She had received a private pilot licence from Amman in 2010, and recently passed the practical and oral tests of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in Saudi Arabia to become the second woman after Hanadi Zakaria Al Hindi to become a commercial airline pilot.
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