'It's ok to be mediocre': Group Captain Varun Singh, lone survivor of IAF chopper crash, wrote to his school

Highlights Group Captain Varun Singh was accompanying CDS Gen Rawat in the helicopter that crashed in TN Group Captain Varun Singh is the lone survivor of the Mi-17V5 chopper crash incident on Wednesday He is undergoing treatment at a military hospital in Bengaluru, His condition is said to be critical "It's ok to be mediocre," this is what Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the IAF chopper crash, had conveyed to the students of his school in a letter to its principal in September. If you do, it's an amazing achievement and must be applauded," Group Captain Singh wrote in the letter to the principal of the Army Public School in Chandimandir in Haryana. "I credit this prestigious award to all those I have been associated with over the years in school, NDA and thereafter the Air Force, as I firmly believe that my actions that day were a result of the grooming and mentoring by my teachers, instructors and peers over the years," Group Captain Singh wrote in the letter dated September 18. Group Captain Singh was conferred with the Shaurya Chakra for displaying exemplary composure and skill when his Tejas aircraft developed the technical snag during a sortie last year.