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David and Alexandra, airline pilots: "We wanted to participate in the national effort"

2020-05-10T06:09:27.868Z


IN THE FIRST LINE - They are the ones we applaud. Le Figaro portrays these ordinary heroes in this extraordinary period of coronavirus crisis.


In the photos they send us, David and Alexandra look great, posing in their cockpit in uniform. As a couple, these two thirty-something are both airline pilots at Air France. In recent weeks, their daily routine has been disrupted by several missions carried out as part of the fight against the coronavirus, between the repatriation of French citizens stranded abroad and cargo missions to fetch equipment, such as masks, in China. They were part of the teams acting in support of the first medical line against the epidemic.

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Both share " exactly the same route " and joined Air France in 2007. First cadets, they made their debut on an A320, in 2010. Since then, they have been co-pilots on Boeing 777. They have elsewhere already able to fly together, on long haul, when the flight time requires several co-pilots to support the captain. " When you are a child, this job seems to

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Source: lefigaro

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