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ASA Flight Crew 5202

Atlanta, GA USA

"This is a generation where all doors are open; there are no excuses anymore."

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First All Female, African-American Flight Crew

We're the first all female African American flight crew.

My path in life has been direct

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On February 12, 2009, Rachelle Jones, Stephanie Grant, Diana Galloway, and Robin Rogers became the first all female African-American flight crew.
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Flight crews are chosen at random, but never in history was a crew made up exclusively of African-American women.
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Each woman took a unique path to a career in aviation: Grant was originally in the military, Jones worked at a ticket gate, Rogers ran a daycare center.
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Grant loves the sense of purpose she gets from flying: "each flight is like a mission" and "at the end, you've helped someone."
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Until Rogers met an African-American male flight attendant, she didn't even realize it was a profession she could enter.
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Jones was one of only 10 African-American female flight captains in the country.
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Galloway hopes to show her granddaughter, "you don't have to be a maid in the hotel; you can run that hotel."
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Still consider aviation a male-dominated, white-dominated industry, but feel proud they've set an example for young black women, children.

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