Missing AN 32 Aircraft | Search Operation Called Off
- Jun 07, 2019,
- Updated Jun 07, 2019, 1:43 AM IST
Guwahati, June 6, 2019:
Search Operation of missing AN 32 by helicopters has been called off due to low light. It will resume tomorrow. C130Js will continue the missions in the night. Nothing has been sighted so far.
Additionally, 2 Cheetah helicopters are reaching this evening to add to the SAR effort. It will join the operations tomorrow onwards.
It is to be mentioned that four Mi-17 aircrafts of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and three ALH helicopters- two of Indian Army and one of the Indian Air Force (IAF), two Sukhoi-30 MKI, one C-130 and one Army UAV were pressed into service to locate the missing aircraft.
The AN-32 Transporter aircraft of Indian Air Force went missing at Arunachal Pradesh on June 3. The aircraft took off at around 1 pm from Jorhat district in Assam with 13 defence personnel.
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Although the Air Force transport plane was expected to land at 1:30 pm at Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3, there was no communication with the aircraft for many hours.
According to reports, the missing plane was last seen at the Shi Yomi district.
Around 13 people were reportedly onboard the transporter aircraft.
More to follow.