New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- Just before she undertook a sortie in a Rafale fighter jet on Wednesday, President Droupadi Murmu posed with Squadron leader Shivangi Singh - the Indian Air Force pilot who Pakistan claimed to have captured after her Rafale jet was allegedly shot down during Operation Sindoor. A Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check had on May 10 called out Pakistan's claim as fake. Pakistan's false claims to cover its failures during Operation Sindoor included assertions about destroying Indian S-400 systems at Adampur, damaging airfields at Suratgarh, Sirsa, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Bhuj and Naliya, neutralising a BrahMos base at Nagrota, and eliminating an ammunition dump in Chandigarh. The 30-year-old Singh, who hails from Varanasi, became India's first woman pilot to fly the French-origin Rafale fighter jet two years ago. On October 10, Squadron Leader Singh added another feather to her cap by becoming India's first woman fighter pilot to earn the coveted Qualified Flying Instructor (QFI) badge after completing a gruelling six-month course at the Indian Air Force's Tambaram-based Flying Instructors' School in Tamil Nadu, a watershed in the air force's 93-year history. She is now certified to train rookie fighter pilots, To be sure, women helicopter pilots have earned the QFI badge before Singh. The officer, who is one of the IAF's 20-odd women fighter pilots, joined the air force in 2017 and earlier flew the MiG-21 Bison aircraft....