Group Captain Varun Singh, Injured In Coonoor Chopper Crash, Dies In Bengaluru Hospital

Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the Tamil Nadu Chopper Crash, under treatment at Command Hospital in Bengaluru, passed away at the hospital. 

Group Captain Varun Singh

New Delhi: Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the Tamil Nadu Chopper Crash, under treatment at Command Hospital in Bengaluru, passed away at the hospital.

IAF via tweet confirmed the passing away of Group Captain Varun Singh.

"Group Captain Varun Singh who succumbed this morning to the injuries sustained in the helicopter accident on 08 Dec 21. IAF offers sincere condolences and stands firmly with the bereaved family," IAF said in a tweet. 

IAF is deeply saddened to inform the passing away of braveheart Group Captain Varun Singh, who succumbed this morning to the injuries sustained in the helicopter accident on 08 Dec 21. IAF offers sincere condolences and stands firmly with the bereaved family.

— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) December 15, 2021

Last week on Wednesday, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 11 other officials were killed in the IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter crash near Coonoor.

With Group Captain Varun Singh's demise, all the 14 on board passengers of the ill-fated helicopter have now passed away.

Group Captain Varun Singh was pulled out of the wreckage last Wednesday and was later moved to a facility in Bengaluru.

Meanwhile, IAF has constituted a tri-service Court of Inquiry to probe the crash which left CDS Rawat and now 13 others dead. The Court of Inquiry is headed by Air Marshal Manvendra Singh and is supposed to submit its report in a span of month.

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