Bengaluru: Captain of the Varun Group of Singh, who survived the IAF Chopper Crash which exhaled the last breath on Wednesday was among the IAF test pilots that had been applied to be part of the event program as an astronaut.
However, captain Group Singh, who was recently given with Shaurya chakra for his hands, had not made the last cut.
A senior IAF official, who is in the middle of the thing when the astronaut election at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) is taking place, saying: “He has cleared several initial tests, but not among the four which was finally chosen for the program.” Group Captain Singh also acknowledged this in a letter he wrote to his school a few months earlier.
After graduating from the National Defense Academy in 2003, he was assigned as a combat pilot in 2004 and mainly flew Jaguar and Tejas during his flying career.
He was among the Best Pilots of IAF, after cleaning the experimental course trial course and provided with Shaurya chakra on August 15, 2021.
According to IAF, the third highest Galantry medal in India – was stressed on independence this year to think quickly and his actions during emergency He was a wing commander with the Tejas fighters’ squadron of IAF.
According to IAF, he was above the sortie in Tejas Jet on October 20 last year to “test flight control systems and aircraft pressure systems”, and while at high altitude, the combat pressure system failed.
The pilot managed to identify problems and started the offspring to a lower altitude for landing.
Furthermore, the flight control system failed during the offspring that led to total loss of aircraft control, which quickly began to lose altitude quickly.
In the midst of all the challenges, the captain of the Singh Group chose not to issue, but managed to bring the plane under control and land safely.
Ace Test Pilot Varun Singh has been applied to become an astronaut
