Indian Air Force AN-32 still missing with 29 people on board

An Indian Air Force AN-32 aircraft has been missing now for over 30 hours and, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has arrived at Chennai to join a sortie conducted by the armed forces. The missing aircraft was on a "courier flight" with 29 people on board and had gone missing 16 minutes after takeoff from Tambaram Air Base.
This has been reported in ndtv.com dated 23 July 2016.

The search and rescue operations has being undertaken by the Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard to locate the whereabouts of the AN-32 that had left the Tambaram air base near Chennai en-route to Port Blair - however, ground control lost contact with it after 16 minutes when the pilot reported that "everything is normal".
The aircraft had six crew members and eight civilians (family members) and it is feared that it might have plunged rapidly from an altitude of 23,000 feet. There were 11 Air Force personnel, one Navy and two Army soldiers and a coast guard member on the transport plane that was headed to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar chain of islands.
More than 12 Navy and coast guard ships are searching for the aircraft in the Bay of Bengal and a submarine has also been diverted for the search. The search operation continued through the night. The plane is fitted with an emergency beacon locator which gets activated in the event of a crash. The Navy submarine is expected to track underwater signals from the locator.


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