{"id":417265,"date":"2021-05-28T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417265"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:42:37","slug":"iaf-chief-bhadauria-flies-mig-21-bison-fighter-to-pay-tribute-to-fallen-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-chief-bhadauria-flies-mig-21-bison-fighter-to-pay-tribute-to-fallen-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF chief Bhadauria flies MiG-21 Bison fighter to pay tribute to fallen pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six days after an Indian Air Force pilot was killed in a MiG-21 crash in Punjab, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on Thursday visited the fighter squadron based at Suratgarh in Rajasthan and flew a MiG-21 Bison fighter along with the squadron\u2019s commanding officer as a tribute to the fallen pilot, officials said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Squadron Leader Abhinav Chaudhary\u2019s MiG-21 Bison crashed near Moga on May 21. This was the third Bison crash this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPanthers (the squadron) paid tribute to Sqn Ldr Abhinav Chaudhary by flying a \u2018Missing Man\u2019 formation, as they recommenced their op (operational) flying. The senior most serving \u2018Panther\u2019, CAS (Chief of Air Staff) flew a Bison &amp; joined the CO in the aerial tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six days after an Indian Air Force pilot was killed in a MiG-21 crash in Punjab, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria on Thursday visited the fighter squadron based at Suratgarh in Rajasthan and flew a MiG-21 Bison fighter along with the squadron\u2019s commanding officer as a tribute to the fallen pilot, officials said on Thursday. Squadron Leader Abhinav Chaudhary\u2019s MiG-21 Bison crashed near Moga on May 21. This was the third Bison crash this year. \u201cPanthers (the squadron) paid tribute to Sqn Ldr Abhinav Chaudhary by flying a \u2018Missing Man\u2019 formation, as they recommenced their op (operational) flying. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417265","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}