Group Captain Varun Singh: The Shaurya Chakra Awardee Had a Close Call in 2020 Too

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  • 2 years ago
Indian Air Force’s Group Captain Varun Singh is the sole survivor of the helicopter crash that led to the death of 13 others on-board, including Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on 8 December.

Group Captain Varun Singh is a pilot in a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Squadron and was awarded the Shaurya Chakra by the president on Independence Day 2021, for saving an LCA Tejas fighter aircraft despite a mid-air emergency in 2020.

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