Pics: Group Captain Varun Singh In A Tejas And A Shaurya Chakra Link
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Group Captain Varun Singh's courage in handling a mid-air crisis and landing his Tejas fighter safely after being hit by a snag at a high altitude earned him India's third highest peacetime gallantry award.
Group Captain Varun Singh, who died today from injuries sustained in the horrific chopper crash that killed India's top General and 12 others on December 8, won the Shaurya Chakra in August this year. His courage in handling a mid-air crisis and landing his Tejas fighter safely after being hit by a snag during a sortie at a high altitude last year earned him India's third highest peacetime gallantry award.
Pictures exclusively accessed by NDTV show the Group Captain landing his Tejas after successfully bypassing a crisis. He is seen wearing a helmet whose insignia he had designed. It depicts his 45 Flying Daggers squadron.
Varun Singh, who was a Wing Commander then, was authorised to fly a system check sortie on October 12, 2020. The combat aircraft (CA) has a sophisticated digital flight control system with one-in-a-million redundancies against failures, according to the Air Force.
However, during this sortie, the cockpit suffered a pressurisation failure at high altitude without any associated failure warning, an official citation on Group Captain Varun Singh reads.
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