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MiG-21s retd, mother of IAF pilot killed in crash speaks up for ‘all my Abhijits’

September 26, 2025 10:10 pm

Kavita Gadgil also fought another battle after the accident. She was aggrieved by the "misleading, confusing, hurtful" response and remarks about the performance of her son referred to in a letter from the Air Force Headquarters sent to her after the accident.

The oldest living pilot of the Indian Air Force, Squadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia, died at the age of 103 at his farm in Uttarakhand on Monday night. (Photo courtesy Majithia family)

Indian Air Force’s oldest pilot Dalip Singh Majithia passes away at 103

April 16, 2024 10:40 am

Squadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia’s cremation will be held today at noon at his farm in Uttarakhand. He joined the Indian Air Force volunteer reserve in 1940 during World War-II.

MIG-21 pilot’s widow seeks reinstatement in IAF after losing husband in crash

May 30, 2023 1:21 pm

Squadron Leader Priyanka Saxena was commissioned into the IAF as a short-service commissioned officer in December 2003. She had opted out of IAF on completion of 10 years of service. Her husband, Wing Commander Harshit Sinha, was killed in a MIG-21 crash near Jaisalmer in December 2021.

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Three women pilots of IAF set to fly frontline military jets

October 05, 2017 9:22 pm

"You will be glad to know that their performance has been on par with other pilots despite the strenuous and demanding nature of flying," Chief of Air Staff B S Dhanoa said addressing a press conference.

‘We thought D P Dhar would take us back in his plane. Those were our hopes... Nobody thought of us. We weren’t even part of talks’

January 21, 2014 1:38 am

Among the 12 IAF pilots lodged in a PoW camp near Rawalpindi in 1971, Group Captain Dilip Parulkar and Wing Commander M S Grewal tried to escape, and were caught just four miles from border.