“I need to see you boys smiling,” IAF chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said this to his men as he touched down at the airbase where the mood was sombre after the ill-fated Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed killing 20 people on-board.

A week after a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter plane crashed leading to grounding of the fleet, IAF chief N.A.K. Browne on Wednesday took an hour-long sortie in the aircraft here, in an exercise aimed at resto