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As Afghanistan's first female commercial airline pilot, Mohadese Mirzae overcame the prejudice that women weren't physically or mentally competent to fly planes. And in February, she took to the skies with the airline's first all-female crew.

But she fled the country when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August - and only after some time did she accept she would not be going back to her home, or her profession, any time soon.

She's now a refugee in Bulgaria.... but is determined to one day take to the skies again.

"My dream of flying it's going to be hard for me to maintain at the moment and it's going to be hard to get back to the skies... unfortunately that's the sad reality of my life, but one day I will go back home and fly again."

(Photo: Mohadese Mirzae in the cockpit. Credit: Mohadese Mirzae).