{"id":260295,"date":"2019-02-21T06:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260295"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:41:46","slug":"bengaluru-iaf-pays-tribute-to-fallen-comrade-by-flying-in-missing-man-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-iaf-pays-tribute-to-fallen-comrade-by-flying-in-missing-man-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: IAF pays tribute to fallen comrade by flying in &#8216;missing man&#8217; formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The city&#8217;s skies dazzled with somersaults and stunts by the metal birds that paid tribute to the Surya Kiran aircraft pilot killed in a mishap during rehearsal on Tuesday. The Jaguar, Tejas and Sukhoi 30MKI aircraft flew in the &#8216;Missing Man&#8217; aerial salute formation in honour of Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi. The Rafale aircraft flew at low speed to pay tribute to Wg. Cdr.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi who died in a mid-air collision between two aircraft of IAF&#8217;s aerobatics team &#8216;Surya Kiran&#8221; during rehearsal on Tuesday.  This was followed by a slow speed pass by Rafale as a salute to the braveheart. While the Rafale displayed the maneuvers the pilot over the radio said,&#8221;Namaste India&#8230;This is for you Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The city&#8217;s skies dazzled with somersaults and stunts by the metal birds that paid tribute to the Surya Kiran aircraft pilot killed in a mishap during rehearsal on Tuesday. The Jaguar, Tejas and Sukhoi 30MKI aircraft flew in the &#8216;Missing Man&#8217; aerial salute formation in honour of Wing Commander Sahil Gandhi. The Rafale aircraft flew at low speed to pay tribute to Wg. Cdr. Gandhi who died in a mid-air collision between two aircraft of IAF&#8217;s aerobatics team &#8216;Surya Kiran&#8221; during rehearsal on Tuesday. This was followed by a slow speed pass by Rafale as a salute to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}