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All 13 bodies and the black box of the AN-32 transport aircraft recovered. Choppers would be used to ferry the bodies from the crash site in Arunachal Pradesh.
— ANI (@ANI) June 13, 2019
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has informed today that there are "no survivors" from the An-32 Transport Aircraft, that crashed on June 03 in Arunachal Pradesh, after searching the wreckage that was found on June 11.
— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) June 13, 2019
Those air personnel who lost their lives in the crash are:
- Wing Commander GM Charles,
- Squadron Leader H Vinod,
- Flight Lieutenant R Thapa,
- Flight Lieutenant A Tanwar,
- Flight Lieutenant S Mohanty,
- Flight Lieutenant MK Garg,
- Warrant officer KK Mishra,
- Sergeant Anoop Kumar,
- Corporal Sherin,
- Leading Aircraftsman SK Singh,
- Leading Aircraftsman Pankaj,
- Non combatants enrolled (NCs(E)) Putali
- Non combatants enrolled (NCs(E)) Rajesh Kumar.
Taking to their official twitter handle, IAF has expressed their condolences towards the families of those who lost their lives in the crash.
— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) June 13, 2019
The Aircraft had gone missing on June 03 around 1 pm during a flight from Assam's Jorhat to Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, which is a military landing strip.
The wreckage of the missing An-32 was found 15-20 kilometres north of the flight path, which was spotted from a height of 12000 ft by the IAF's Mi-17 Helicopter undertaking search in the expanded search zone.
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