IAF Inducts Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal as First Woman Engineer

Indian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal becomes first woman flight engineer.

(Photo: ANI)

In a big step forward for gender equality, the Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted its first ever woman flight engineer in Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal, reported ANI.

“She's created history," IAF told the Times of India.

Jaiswal is from Chandigarh, and after a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Panjab University, she was commissioned into the engineering branch of the IAF on 5 January 2015.

“She has served as Chief of firing team and battery commander in a front line Surface to Air Missile squadron, before being selected for the the prestigious Flight Engineers’ Course. She successfully completed the course and earned her Flight Engineer’s wing on 15 February 2019.”

IAF to The Times of India

Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal.(Photo: ANI)

Jaiswal describes her achievement as a “dream come true”.

(With inputs from ANI and The Times of India.)