Sunday, August 21, 2016

Mystery of missing Indian plane continues, 27 days after disappearance...

Twenty-seven days after an Indian military jet mysteriously vanished from radar on a routine flight over the Bay of Bengal, authorities are no wiser as to the aircraft's fate, Indian officials say.

The Indian Air Force Antonov AN-32 transport plane carrying 29 people took off from the southern Indian city of Chennai at 8:30 a.m. on July 22 for a three-hour flight to Port Blair, in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

But 42 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft tilted to the left, descended swiftly from its cruising height of 23,000 feet and vanished from radar, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar told the country's upper house of parliament in Delhi last month.

"There is no SOS... no transmission on any frequency," he said.

"It just disappeared."

Minutes before the disappearance, the pilot had said he was deviating to the right to avoid a heavy raincloud, said Parrikar. At the time it vanished, it was only about 8-10 minutes from reaching the limits of radar coverage in the region. Full story...

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