After a lot of frustrating experience, the Govt. has called off all search operations for the missing AN 32 military air-craft.On 22nd July,a AN 32 twin engine transport turboprop air-craft w as missing while flying over Bay of Bengal. There were 29 defense personnel on board including six crew members. The air-craft was flying from Tambaram in Chennai to Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.The last message received from the pilot was "All is well" within 20 minutes of take off.
The search and rescue operations launched by India was one of the biggest search operations for a missing plane on the sea in HISTORY.18 Navy and Coast Guard ships including a submarine and eight air-crafts were involved in the search operations in the Bay of Bengal,about 150 nautical miles east of Chennai.
As the air-craft was not traced in nearly two months.the search mission was called off yesterday and all the 29 persons on board are presumed dead and the families have been notified.
We should compliment the Indian Airforce and the Govt. for relentlessly conducting the biggest search operation for a missing ship. The efforts taken were as good as the efforts taken by Malaysian Government when one of their planes disappeared some months ago.
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