February Maria Tejada-Quintana becomes the first woman of the Dominican Republic certified as a combat pilot.[238] April: Astrid Deira becomes the first woman in Suriname to be the captain of a Boeing 737.[239] Esther Mbabazi becomes the first woman pilot in Rwanda.[240][241][242] Chinese pilot, Yu Xu, becomes the first woman to fly the J-10 fighter jet.[243] Frances Smith, Gwendolyn Ritchie and Gayle Saunders all become the first women promoted to captain in Bahamasair.[244] The Afghan Air Force starts training women pilots again. Sourya Saleh and Masooma Hussaini were trained as helicopter pilots.[245] Niloofar Rahmani is trained as a fixed-wing military pilot, the first Afghan woman in the military to fly planes.[246] Sakhile Nyoni-Reiling became the first woman General Manager of government-owned Air Botswana.[159] Czarena Hashim becomes the first woman airline captain in the Royal Brunei airlines.[247] Katarzyna Tomiak becomes a Mig-29 fighter pilot in the Polish Air Force.[248] Andrea Deyling is the first licensed Zeppelin pilot in the United States.[249]