{"id":516849,"date":"2022-08-25T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T05:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516849"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T07:35:21","slug":"pilot-who-trained-rajiv-gandhi-to-fly-passes-away-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-who-trained-rajiv-gandhi-to-fly-passes-away-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot who trained Rajiv Gandhi to fly passes away at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former top Indian airlines official Captain TA Kunjipalu, more popularly known as the pilot who taught Rajiv Gandhi to fly and later cleared him as a pilot, passed away near Kochi on Wednesday, according to family sources.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from Indian Airlines in 1989, the 94-year-old Kunjipalu settled down near Kochi at Aluva.<\/p>\n<p>Kunjipalu was Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s instructor who later appeared as his examiner and cleared him as a full-fledged pilot. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, later, when Gandhi went to ink the agreement with Sri Lanka, it was Kunjipalu who piloted the aircraft to Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former top Indian airlines official Captain TA Kunjipalu, more popularly known as the pilot who taught Rajiv Gandhi to fly and later cleared him as a pilot, passed away near Kochi on Wednesday, according to family sources. After retiring from Indian Airlines in 1989, the 94-year-old Kunjipalu settled down near Kochi at Aluva. Kunjipalu was Rajiv Gandhi&#8217;s instructor who later appeared as his examiner and cleared him as a full-fledged pilot. Interestingly, later, when Gandhi went to ink the agreement with Sri Lanka, it was Kunjipalu who piloted the aircraft to Colombo.<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516849","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=516849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}