{"id":455374,"date":"2021-12-10T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455374"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:21:52","slug":"sole-survivor-of-iaf-chopper-crash-honoured-with-shaurya-chakra-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sole-survivor-of-iaf-chopper-crash-honoured-with-shaurya-chakra-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole survivor of IAF chopper crash honoured with Shaurya Chakra in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the horrifying chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, was conferred with the Shaurya Chakra in August for averting a possible mid-air accident after his Tejas light combat aircraft suffered a major technical glitch last year.<\/p>\n<p>Singh is now battling for life at a military hospital in Wellington. <\/p>\n<p>Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 armed forces personnel were killed in the Mi-17V5 helicopter crash in one of the biggest air accidents involving top military officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Group Captain Varun Singh is on life support in the military hospital at Wellington and all efforts are being made to save his life,&#8221; Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said while apprising Parliament on the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the horrifying chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, was conferred with the Shaurya Chakra in August for averting a possible mid-air accident after his Tejas light combat aircraft suffered a major technical glitch last year. Singh is now battling for life at a military hospital in Wellington. Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 armed forces personnel were killed in the Mi-17V5 helicopter crash in one of the biggest air accidents involving top military officials. &#8220;Group Captain Varun Singh is on life support in the military [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455374","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=455374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}