Two Delta A320/319 pilots made history on Sunday, February 26, 2017, flying Delta’s first mainline flight with two African-American female pilots in the flight deck.
Atlanta-based First Officer Dawn Cook learned that Detroit-based Captain Stephanie Johnson, Delta’s first African-American female captain, would be flying out of Detroit last Sunday and reached out to Johnson to help facilitate the historic flight. Afterward, Cook posted the above photo to Facebook to commemorate the flight.
With Capt. Stephanie Johnson and First Office Dawn Cook at the helm of an Airbus A320 flying from Detroit to Las Vegas on Sunday (Feb. 26), the duo became the first African American women to make up the cockpit crew on one of Delta’s “mainline” flights.
After they arrived in Las Vegas as the pilots of Flight 555, Cook posted a photo of the two on Facebook to commemorate the occasion.
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