The Chief of Air Staff flew the sortie at the Suratgarh air force station in Rajasthan. The No. 23 Squadron, popularly known as Panthers, is based in Suratgarh.
IAF pilot, killed in MiG-21 crash, cremated in his ancestral village in Baghpat
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Last Updated: May 22, 2021, 07:03 PM IST
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Earlier on Saturday morning, his body, wrapped in the tricolour, was taken by IAF officials from the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad to his family residence at Gangasagar in Meerut where his inconsolably crying family members, including father Satendra Chaudhary, mother Satya Chaudhary, wife Sonika Ujjaval and sister Mudrika, received it.
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The last rites of IAF fighter pilot Abhinav Choudhary, killed in a MiG-21 crash in Moga district of Punjab, were performed with full military honours at his ancestral village Pusar with people bidding a final farewell to the braveheart with moist eyes. The funeral pyre of 28-year-old Squadron Leader Choudhary was lit by his uncle Sube Singh who cried inconsolably along with the pilot s father and other family members amidst the raising of slogans like Bharat Mata ki Jai and shaheed Abhinav Choudha
Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary's last rites were performed in his ancestral village in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. He was killed after his MiG-21 Bison crashed in Punjab during a night combat training sorties.