19-Year-Old Woman Sets Record for Solo Global Flight

Belgium-British teenage pilot Zara Rutherford jubilates in the cockpit, after landing her Shark ultralight plane at the Kortrijk airport in Kortrijk, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2022. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo

BRUSSELS—Home! And no longer alone.

The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday—155 days after she departed.