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The Mumbai Textile Student Who Became the Pilot Who Saved a Flight to Tel Aviv

The Mumbai Textile Student Who Became the Pilot Who Saved a Flight to Tel Aviv

Smit Machchhar never set out to become a pilot. He grew up expecting to join his family’s textile business, enrolling in a textile engineering course straight out of school before later pursuing management studies at Mumbai’s Welingkar Institute of Management. It was at an aviation seminar there, at around 19 years old, that something shifted, … Read more