12/06/2026
Since the time Ángeles Hernández discovered her calling to become a pilot after boarding a Boeing 747 as a child bound for a visit to England, she never imagined that, decades later, she would sit in the cockpit of an Iberia airplane flying the successor of St. Peter from Madrid to Barcelona.
During takeoff, the pope was invited to the cockpit, where they shared an exchange she said she will never forget.
