Pathankot (Punjab): Glimpses of a sortie of Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal B. S. Dhanoa, along with Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was on August 15 named for Vir Chakra, here today.

This was the last sortie flown by the Chief of Air Staff in a fighter aircraft before his retirement at the end of this month.

Wing Commander Abhinandan was feted with India’s third highest wartime gallantry medal for shooting down a Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 in February this year after the Balakot air strike by the IAF in retaliation to the terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir on a CRPF convoy.