AN – 32 Aircraft found missing
Chennai sources have stated that after 48 hours of frantic search involving assets drawn from the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, the Indian Air Force (IAF) authorities have lodged a formal complaint with Tamil Nadu police over the missing AN-32 aircraft.
A senior police official has told that they have received a complaint that Air Force’s AN-32 transport aircraft has gone missing and the complaint was lodged last night with Selaiyur police.
The official has told that the complaint has told that 29 personnel on board AN-32 and the aircraft have gone missing and among the missing personnel is one person from Tamil Nadu and such a complaint has been lodged for legal purposes and a similar plaint was filed when Coast Guard’s Dornier aircraft went missing last year.
Meanwhile, the search operations for the AN-32 aircraft involving multiple agencies continued for the third consecutive day and IAF’s Port Blair-bound AN-32 transport aircraft went missing after it took off from the Tambaram air base in Chennai by 8.30 a.m. on July 22nd.