India, April 4 -- Flight lieutenant Siddharth Yadav, 28, who lost his life in a Jaguar crash near Jamnagar in Gujarat on Wednesday night, was cremated with full military honours at his native village of Majra Bhalkhi in Rewari district of Haryana.

Villagers gathered in large numbers to pay tributes to the brave pilot and chanted patriotic slogans as his father, Sushil Yadav, performed the last rites in the presence of Bawal MLA Krishan Kumar and former minister Banwari Lal.

Flight lieutenant Siddharth was on a night training mission when the aircraft crashed around 9.30pm on Wednesday, shortly after taking off from Jamnagar. The jet went down in an open field near Suvarda village, 12km from Jamnagar city, and caught fire. Flight lieuten...