Please pray for the missing AN-32
Namaste
It will be miracle if we get to hear good news and its too early to say something that will affect the morale of search machines or the traumatized families.
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The twin-engine aircraft seems to have gone on a downward spiral due to some major problem on board," said another official. The endurance of the AN-32 was four hours and 15 minutes, and it was slated to land at Port Blair at 11.45 amafter taking off from Chennai at 8.30am.
Its almost 48 hours over :(
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went missing with 29 people on board after a steep downward spiral over the Bay of Bengal on Friday morning
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"probable crash zone", roughly spanning 400 nautical miles by 200 nautical miles, around the last known radar contact with the ill-fated AN-32 aircraft about 151 nautical miles due east of Chennai.
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The four officers on board the AN-32 were the two pilots, Flight Lieutenant Pushpendra Badsara and Flying Officer Pankaj Kumar Nanda, navigator Flight Lieutenant Kunal Barpatte, and a passenger Flight Lieutenant Deepika Sheoran, who is married to a Coast Guard officer based at Port Blair, as was reported by TOI.
The plane was also carrying 17 other military personnel and eight civilians from the naval armament depot at Vizag, who were on way to Port Blair to repair a close-range naval gun (CRN-91) of a small warship at Port Blair.
29 Men belonging to our security apparatus. I feel very sad :(
