There were a dozen different videos of Abhi's shoot down and eventual capture were circulating at the time, more so the locals reached him before the PA soldiers who saved him....so don't you think or rather don't want to believe that if a second aircraft had crashed or pilot captured, that would have also been filmed by someone out there....in fact the first witnesses claimed seeing two jets on fire, one came down on Pakistani side while the other they claimed went very fast towards India.
Even with Abhi's MiG, the Indian warlords tried to cover up by claiming, it went down due to malfunction and Abhi's parachute drifted towards Pakistan, hell his several ton MiG must have been heartbroken that it also followed it's pilot in a breeze....the fact is losing the MiG may not have been a big deal but the SU-30 loss sent shockwaves in the IAF and they had to create a sensation to cover the humiliation so nothing less than imaginary shooting down of an F-16 would be acceptable even if the claimed shooter doesn't want to know about it....as the poor guy didn't even know where he was or what hit him.