Pilot who fled Afghanistan as a boy helps fly more than 1,000 refugees to the U.S. decades later

Growing up, Zak Khogyani always loved airplanes. He said grandfather, who learned to fly in 1924, was one of the first pilots in Afghanistan and influenced his fascination with flight. Khogyani loved building model airplanes and watching them from afar.


"Whenever we flew, my parents would say I would vanish mid flight. I'd be going and checking out the galley, the lavatories, talking to the flight attendants," he told CBS News. Sometimes, he'd even end up in the cockpit, hanging out with the pilots for as long as they'd let him.