New Delhi/hyderabad: From the bottom rung of the IAF, as an airman for whom piloting an aircraft could only have been a fantasy, Tahir Khan rose. He graduated, became an officer in the Army’s aviation unit and became Major Khan. And then, from that height, he fell —- to his death.
A day after Major Tahir Khan was killed when the helicopter he was co-piloting crashed during a night sortie in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore, his colleagues and an ex-boss took to social media to piece together the life of the “boy” who “lived and died for his dream, of flying”.
And his father Sarver Hussain spoke about the grief of a father who “has to perform the rites of his beloved son”. “He lived and died for his country,” said Hussain about the second of his three sons.
Tracing his background, in posts accessed by The Indian Express, an “ex-CO” posted on WhatsApp an account of how Khan, from a “modest family” in Hyderabad, started his career in the IAF.
13/02/15 Pranav Kulkarni/Sreenivas Janyala/Indian Express
A day after Major Tahir Khan was killed when the helicopter he was co-piloting crashed during a night sortie in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore, his colleagues and an ex-boss took to social media to piece together the life of the “boy” who “lived and died for his dream, of flying”.
And his father Sarver Hussain spoke about the grief of a father who “has to perform the rites of his beloved son”. “He lived and died for his country,” said Hussain about the second of his three sons.
Tracing his background, in posts accessed by The Indian Express, an “ex-CO” posted on WhatsApp an account of how Khan, from a “modest family” in Hyderabad, started his career in the IAF.
13/02/15 Pranav Kulkarni/Sreenivas Janyala/Indian Express
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