Captain Alemayehu Abebe was the first black African commercial Jet pilot and the first black African to command a commercial jetliner across the Atlantic. He was appointed as the first Ethiopian aircraft commander in January 1957.
He is widely praised for taking on a new technological discipline that no other Ethiopian attempted before him. It is known that he became interested in flying airplanes at the age of 10 as he saw them fly over him in his hometown of Babile in the eastern Ethiopian province of Harar. Unlike many pilots, he was not from a privileged family. Yet through determination and self-discipline he was able to fulfill not only his dreams of becoming a captain, but also to have his name in the history books as the first African commercial Jet pilot.
(Ethiopian Stories)
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