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Meet Irene Koki Mutungi, the pilot who flew Rick Ross to Zimbabwe

US RAPPER Rick Ross flew into Zimbabwe last Friday for his maiden performance at the Harare International Conference Centre.

While the attention has been on the Maybach Music Group boss and ROAR Entertainment, the organisers of his maiden concert, flowers are due to Irene Koki Mutungi who flew Rick Ross’s plane.

Captain Mutungi took to her official Twitter account to thank the biggest boss for choosing to fly with her.

She wrote: “Hanging out 43 000ft with the business mogul, rapper, the boss Ricky Rozay @RickRoss. It was a pleasure flying you.”

But who is Mutungi? She is a professional pilot from Kenya and was the first woman on the African continent to become certified as a captain of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft.

As a trailblazer, Mutungi’s career has been full of accolades; in October she was inducted into the Aviators Africa Hall of Fame after working in the aviation industry for over 25 years.

Mutungi said she was inspired to become a pilot by her father who was a commercial pilot with Kenya’s national airline. Soon after completing high school education at 17, Mutungi enrolled in flight school in Nairobi and got her Private Pilot’s Licence. And her career took off … |

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