Missing IAF plane: Parrikar to visit Chennai to oversee search ops

July 23, 2016 09:41

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will visit Chennai today to oversee search operations for an Indian Air Force AN-32 courier flight that went missing with 29 people on board on Friday.

The plane left the Tambaram air base near Chennai at 8.30 am on Friday and was to have landed at Port Blair around 11.45 am. It fell off the radar at 9.12 am, 280 km east of Chennai.

More than 12 Navy and coast guard ships are looking for the aircraft in the Bay of Bengal. A submarine has also been diverted for the search. The search operation continued through the night.

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