Interviewed by
Bjorn Finke
Zara Rutherford is running late. The 19-year-old pilot started her circumnavigation of the world from Kortrijk Airport in Belgium in August. Two to three months later she wanted to go there again with her small propeller plane arrive. Now the woman with the Belgian and British passport will probably not land until Monday – bad weather and visa problems are to blame. She will then be the youngest woman to fly around the world without a co-pilot. The previous record holder was already 30 years old when she went on her adventure. On Sunday, Rutherford will be at Frankfurt-Egelsbach Airport Make a stopover; during the video interview she is sitting in her hotel room in Heraklion on Crete.