{"id":455127,"date":"2021-12-09T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455127"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:45:59","slug":"iaf-helicopter-crash-lone-survivor-had-close-call-last-year-got-shaurya-chakra-for-gallantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-helicopter-crash-lone-survivor-had-close-call-last-year-got-shaurya-chakra-for-gallantry\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF helicopter crash: Lone survivor had close call last year, got Shaurya Chakra for gallantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the helicopter crash Wednesday, is in critical condition at the Military Hospital in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, he had a close call when a Light Combat Aircraft that he was flying developed system failure, resulting in total loss of control. Going \u201cbeyond the call of duty\u201d, he managed to land the aircraft and for this \u201cact of exceptional gallantry\u201d, he was awarded the Shaurya Chakra on Independence Day this year. <\/p>\n<p>In one of his Twitter posts, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said: \u201cPraying for the speedy recovery of Gp Capt Varun Singh, who is currently under treatment at the Military Hospital, Wellington.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the helicopter crash Wednesday, is in critical condition at the Military Hospital in Wellington. A year ago, he had a close call when a Light Combat Aircraft that he was flying developed system failure, resulting in total loss of control. Going \u201cbeyond the call of duty\u201d, he managed to land the aircraft and for this \u201cact of exceptional gallantry\u201d, he was awarded the Shaurya Chakra on Independence Day this year. In one of his Twitter posts, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said: \u201cPraying for the speedy recovery of Gp Capt Varun Singh, who [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455127","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=455127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}