OREANDA-NEWS. December 27, 2011. The airline’s staff saw the first female aircraft commander. Until then, Mrs. Tatiana Kazachkova had flied for three years for Rossiya as the second pilot on a Boeing 737-500 aircraft.

Tatiana has undertaken her first independent flight from St. Petersburg to Kiev and back. Passengers of FV841/842 flights heard a delicate female voice from the cockpit for the first time.

Numerous male colleagues headed by Chief Officer of the Flight Department came to see the female commander. As a tradition of first independent flights, flowers have to be granted to a new aircraft commander. Tatiana saw as many flowers as none of her predecessors have seen. Indeed, this is quite symbolic.