Esther Mbabazi is a professional commercial airline pilot in Rwanda.
Her father and mother are revivalist pastors and the family moved around a lot.
When Esther was about eight years, her father died in a plane crash when the aircraft he was travelling in overshot the runway while landing in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[1][2][3] On completion of her studies in the United States, Esther Mbabazi was hired by RwandAir to fly as a co-pilot on the Boeing 737 and on the CRJ900, beginning in 2012, when she was 24 years old.
[1][2][3] In September 2024, she was inducted into the Captain's Club of the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISA+21).