Meet Farhah Majeed, Valleys youngest male pilot

AAQIB BHAT

Says, follow your dreams consistently to give wings to your dreams

Srinigar Jan 15 (PTK):A youth from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has become valley’s youngest pilot by getting commercial pilot licence recently.

Farhan Majeed (20) son of Ab Majeed Bagow a resident of Awantipora Pulwama after crossing his 12th class from Mantaqui Higher Secondary School Awantipora joined flying academy Global Konnect Aviation Services Pvt Ltd in Uttarakhand to give wings to his dreams.

While talking with PTK Farhan said that since my childhood i was interested in aeroplanes and my dream was to become a pilot.

“I was clueless about this profession and would spend hours on internet to know to pursue this carrier,”he said, adding that, “I was always asking my parents that I have to become a pilot.”

“After crossing my 12th, with the full support of my family I joined an academy in Uttarakhand to fly an aeroplane,”he said, adding that, ” I feel very proud that I have become valley’s youngest Indian commercial licence holder.”

His father Ab Majeed Bagow who is a Mathematics lecturer and his mother Fahmeeda Banoo who is also a teacher said that most people never want their son to go in this field but from day one we kept supporting our son to go ahead.

“We never backed down and by becoming youngest pilot of our valley, he has made all of us proud,” They said.

Farhan said that our youth are very much talented but parents besides teachers must guide them and give a proper direction to their future so that they can follow their goals and achieve their dreams without any obstacle. (PTK)