09-03-2009, 06:25 AM
NEW DELHI: Five of IAF'S elite Communication Squadron made the supreme sacrifice in saving the life of then Prime Minister Morarji Desai on November 4, 1977, when the Tu-124 jet, V-643 Pushpak, crashlanded at Jorhat in Assam. The pilots were Wing Commander Clarence D'Lima, Wing Commander Joginder Singh, Squadron Leader Mathew Cyriac, Squadron Leader V V S Sankar Flight Lieutenant O P Arora. All of them were killed in the crash.
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