The condition of Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of Wednesday’s chopper crash in Tamil Nadu, is “critical but stable”, defence ministry sources said.
The officer had been awarded the Shaurya Chakra on Independence Day this year for his courage in successfully landing his Tejas fighter aircraft during an aerial emergency in 2020.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday told Parliament that Varun, who has severe burns, was on life support and “all efforts are being made to save his life”.
Varun has been flown from the military hospital in Wellington, Ooty, to the Command Hospital in Bangalore.
An instructor at the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, he was on board the chopper as the liaison officer for the visit of Gen. Bipin Rawat. His younger brother is a lieutenant commander in the navy.
