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Engineer Hazel Wachira: Kenyan woman who turned Dreamliner into a cargo plane

In 2020, she was the lead and project manager in the plan to repurpose two Kenya Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliners [Files Standard]

Engineer Hazel Wachira has been with the national carrier for the past five years, supporting the airline's Engineering Department on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet.

In 2020, she was the lead and project manager in the plan to repurpose two Kenya Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliners. It is a passenger plane, but they repurposed it and turned it into a cargo plane.

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