Sarla Thakral becomes the first Indian woman to earn her private pilot's license.[13] Beryl Markham from England is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.[1] Lee Ya-Ching becomes the first woman to be licensed as a pilot in China.[64] Phyllis Doreen Hooper earned the first women commercial pilot license in South Africa.[65] Mulumebet Emeru was the first woman pilot of Ethiopia. She was a student, but her flight training was interrupted by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia[69]