Proud parents of pilot who safely performed an emergency landing

Shrikrishna and Rukmini Shitole’s oldest girl Maitreyee was 1 of the pilots flying the aircraft. Originally from Daund, the Shitoles are parents to 2 daughters and a son. Shrikrishna runs a transport and crane concern portion Rukmini manages a insubstantial conduit manufacturing mill successful Khed-Shivapur. “When she was successful people 5 oregon 6, we took a formation from Delhi to Pune. The craft was being flown by a pistillate aviator and the unit fto her into the cockpit to conscionable her. There and past she said – “Even I privation to alert a plane”, and decided she would beryllium a pilot,” said Shrikrishna talking astir Maitreyee.

Maitreyee completed her schooling from Sinhgad Springdale. Signs of her brilliance were ever visible: she had been connected a travel to NASA aft people 10 wherever they conducted basal astronaut grooming for children, and she bagged apical ranking there, too.

However, Maitreyee faced a hitch successful her journey. When she was studying subject aft people 10, the household was told that lone those with a cleanable imaginativeness (without spectacles) tin go pilots. Maitreyee utilized spectacles, and due to the fact that the net was not truthful accessible astatine that time, getting close accusation was not easy. “In Maratha households similar ours, generally, daughters are joined disconnected astatine 21-22 years, truthful determination was nary 1 to usher her. She gave up connected her imagination and opted for a bachelor’s grade successful BSc successful subject from Fergusson college. However, aboriginal she got to cognize that her oculus show was wrong the acceptable range. So she went for aviator grooming aft graduation,” said Shrikrishna. Maitreyee got her commercialized aviator licence from Mainland Aviation College successful Dunedin, New Zealand.

Day of the incident

On October 12 erstwhile the formation to Sharjah faced a method glitch, Maitreyee’s younger sister was leaving for Germany to study. Her parents were engaged seeing their younger girl off, and the household was wholly unaware of the concern unfolding successful the air. After the level landed, Maitreyee called her parent and broke the quality to her.

“My legs froze for a infinitesimal listening to what she told me. She past added her begetter to the telephone and shared the quality with him,” said Rukmini.

“We are precise proud. With patience and a chill caput she landed the plane. We received implicit 500 calls and God knows however galore messages asking astir our daughter,” said Shrikrishna. “When she got a occupation arsenic a pilot, some of america told her she indispensable support successful caput the fig of radical she is liable for portion flying a plane. We are arrogant that she proved this today,” added Rukmini with a smile.