A teenage pilot attempting to be the youngest to fly the globe solo has revealed the "hairy moment" he cheated death on an abandoned Pacific Ocean island.Mack Rutherford took off from Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 23 this year and flew to Italy and Greece, before navigating Asia, Africa, the US, and two oceans.

A teenage pilot attempting to be the youngest to fly the globe solo has revealed the "hairy moment" he cheated death on an abandoned Pacific Ocean island.Mack Rutherford took off from Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 23 this year and flew to Italy and Greece, before navigating Asia, Africa, the US, and two oceans.