Dornier crash: 2 Navy officers cremated with military honours
Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat and Lieutenant Abhinav Nagori were on the Dornier aircraft which went down on Tuesday night.
The last rites of 27-year-old Lt. Shekhawat, who was the country's first woman officer to die in the line of duty, was held at her hometown of Mewat in Haryana.
Her body was recovered from the wreckage of the Navy Dornier aircraft on Thursday.
Lt. Nagori's body was recovered on Friday. He was cremated today in Udaipur in Rajasthan.
The debris of a Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft was found on Thursday morning using under water SONAR system.
Reports said INS Makar, a naval hydrographic vessel, had detected a large metallic object likely to be the fuselage of the ill- fated Navy Dornier.
The aircraft, which was on a routine training sortie, crashed on Tuesday with three officers onboard.
The aircrew onboard the aircraft comprised three officers-two pilots and one woman observer. One pilot was rescued earlier.
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