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“There’s no lights at the airport, and there’s virtually no lights on the island as a whole,” said Juan Browne, a veteran Air Force and commercial airline pilot who examined the tracking data.

Lara said she’d received “zero communications, no help” from the UK government, and though she flew with a commercial airline, she said that it had been tough to find a flight that was direct - and affordable.

Ms Ghalayini said the only commercial airline she could find leaving Beirut was Middle East Airlines - and she was only able to get a seat because her husband is a pilot for the company.

One of the first female commercial airline pilots was a Scot - yet few will have even heard of aviation pioneer Winnie Drinkwater.

David E. Harris, a former Air Force bomber pilot who at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s became the first Black pilot hired by a major commercial airline in the United States, died on March 8 in Marietta, Ga., about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta.