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New Delhi:A Rs 5,000 crore project of the Ministry of Earth Sciences for deep sea exploration of polymetallic nodules has by chance unearthed the debris of India Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft that went missing eight years ago with 29 personnel on board...
The AN-32 aircraft with registration K-2743 had gone missing over the Bay of Bengal on 22 July 2016 during an operational mission after taking off from Tambaram, Chennai, for Port Blair...
The IAF saidthe National Institute of Ocean Technology, which functions under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, had recently deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with deep sea exploration capability at the last known location of the missing AN-32...
Analysis of search images had indicated the presence of debris of a crashed aircraft on the sea bed approximately 140 nautical miles (approximately 310 km) from the Chennai coast, the IAF said in a statement...
This discovery at the probable crash site, with no other recorded history of any other missing aircraft report(ed) in the same area, points to the debris as possibly belonging to the crashed IAF An-32 (K-2743), the IAF said.. Defence sources said they would now look at retrieving the remains if possible to bring closure to the families...
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