Thiruvananthapuram: The last rites of Flight Lt S Achudev, one of the two IAF pilots who was killed after their Sukhoi-30 fighter jet crashed in Assam on May 23, will be held at the family's ancestral home in Kozhikode on Saturday.
The mortal remains of the 25-year-old IAF pilot will be airlifted in a special aircraft from Thiruvananthapuram and reach Kozhikode by around 11 am. His body will be kept at his ancestral home in Pantheerankavu for public to pay homage and will laid to rest at the premises with full military honours thereafter.
On Friday, the mortal remains were brought to his house in Thiruvananthapuram where Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan paid tributes to the late officer.
The bereaved parents - V P Sahadevan is a retired officer of VSSC and mother Jaishree is a former staff of Reprographic Centre. Sister Anushree. The parents had gone to IAF's Tezpur airbase as soon as they had heard about the incident.
Senior Air staff officer Headquarters, Southern Air command, Air Marshal Rajiv Sachadeva also paid tributes to the pilot and consoled the parents.
Ministers Kadakkampally Surendran, K Raju, T P Ramakrishnan, Kadannappalli Ramachandran were among those who visited the pilot's home here and paid their respect.
The wreckage of the Sukhoi-30 MKI jet was found on May 26 in a dense forest area in Arunachal Pradesh after a three- day search operation.
The plane had taken off from Tezpur airbase at around 10.30 am on May 23 and had gone off the radar around 11.10 am. It was on a routine training mission as part of a two-aircraft formation.
The wreckage of the jet was spotted from air on May 26, and search teams could reach the crash site only on May 28 due to inclement weather after which the black box was recovered.
Bodies of Squadron Leader D Pankaj and Achudev were recovered on May 31 in the dense forest area on the hills in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh.
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