In pics: 24-year-old Kolkata pilot who brought back Indians from Ukraine

A proud member of Operation Ganga, Mahasweta Chakraborty flew six evacuation flights — four from Poland and two from Hungary.

Rescuing those students was the experience of a lifetime, Chakraborty said.

Got a call late at night and was told that I was chosen for the rescue, Chakraborty said.

A student of Auxilium Convent school, Chakraborty, the only child of her parents, always wanted to be a pilot.

Chakraborty has been a part of two major emergency operations — Operation Ganga now and Vande Bharat during the initial phases of Covid-19, when the entire world was under lockdown.