Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan paid tributes to the late officer and spent some time with the bereaved parents - V P Sahadevan, a retired officer of ISRO here, and mother Jaishree.
The parents had gone to IAF's Tezpur airbase as soon as they had heard about the incident and returned yesterday.
The last rites of the 25-year-old IAF pilot are expected to be held at the family's ancestral home in Kozhikode tomorrow.
Devasom minister Kadakkampally Surendran was among those who visited the pilot's home here and paid their respect.
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Bodies of Squadron Leader D Pankaj and Achudev were recovered on May 31 in the dense forest area on the hills in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh.
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