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All Female Crew Flies Into SFO (Video)

Whether flying the plane or serving beverages, all crew members aboard this flight were women.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — If you flew into San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, you may have unwittingly been part of history.

A Southwest Airlines flight from St. Louis to SFO was "manned" by an all female crew. Both pilots in the cockpit were women, along with all of the flight attendants.

It was a first for Southwest, which says that less than 10 percent of their pilots are women.

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