Teen pilot arrives on Kenya on journey round world

Mack Rutherford, a British-Belgian 16 year-old who is attempting to break the current world record of youngest person to fly solo around the world, arrived Wednesday at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. He was welcomed on the runway by students and staff of the Kenya School of Flying.

Mack Rutherford, 16-Year-Old Pilot  said  "There have been quite a few difficult places in terms of visibility, such as Khartoum, where the visibility was quite low, where I have always managed to land perfectly safely. And then actually in Nairobi, the cloud base was very low and there were high mountains so I had to sort of weave around, but it was completely fine and I am very happy."

 Rutherford's visit was "inspiring" and that it would serve to "motivate the young aviators" of the school.His planned circumnavigation of the world using a Shark ultralight aircraft started on March 23 in Sofia, Bulgaria, two months after his 19-year-old sister, Zara Rutherford, set the world record for the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.