British-Belgian teenager Mack Rutherford is in the final stage of his solo journey, which began in March
A 17-year-old pilot attempting to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo has revealed that his “hairiest moment” involved sleeping in a shed on an abandoned Pacific island.
The British-Belgian teenager is in the final stages of his journey back to Sofia, where his key sponsor is based, and he hopes to arrive on 24 August. “I think the hairiest moment was on the Pacific flight,” Rutherford said. “After 10 hours, I arrived at this small island, it was starting to get dark, so I landed and it was quite low cloud, it was raining, it was getting quite dark, no lights on the runway.
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