Hina, IAF's first woman flight engineer

The IAF inducted Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal from the 112th helicopter unit at the Yelahanka air base in the city's northern suburb as its first woman flight engineer. Hina, who hails from Chandigarh, graduated in engineering from the Panjab University. In 2018, the flight engineer branch, which was the domain of male air warriors, was opened to women officers. Commissioned as a warrior on January 5, 2015, in the engineering branch of the Air Force, Hina served as chief of firing team and battery commander in a frontline surface-to-air missile squadron before her selection to the flight engineers' course.