Meet First Mother & Daughters Airline Pilots at Delta: “Piloting Is A Family Business”

For a mother and her 2 daughters at Delta, piloting is a family business: On a warm Los Angeles afternoon, Kelly Jacobson is inspecting nearly every external inch of her 200,000-pound aircraft through the thick aviator sunglasses she fuses with her Delta Air Lines uniform. She’ll be flying the Boeing 757 alongside a pilot she has a lot of hours with outside the cockpit.