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Zara Rutherford, 19, becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world

As teenage pilot Zara Rutherford flew ever onward in a record-challenging global odyssey, she met little as strange or scary as when she tried to squeeze in between North Korean airspace and a massive cloud threatening to cut off passage for her ultralight plane.

"The smoke was building up and up, to the point that the whole cabin stank of smoke and I could not see anything but a burnished orange color," Rutherford said.