Chennai: The search for the missing Indian Air Force transport aircraft is decidedly more difficult than it was during the hunt for the Coast Guard’s Dornier, as the flight data recorder of this plane - one of the older versions of aircraft - does not emit any signals, said experts.
The AN-32 carrying 29 passengers, had plunged into the sea on July 22 soon after taking off from Chennai. The black box of an aircraft is usually the only hope when the emergency locator transmitter (ELT) fails. The black box emits signals for 30 days - it was due to that the Coast Guard plane’s debris was retrieved from the sea after the ROV, MSV Olympic Canyon, detected its signals.
All hopes now lie on the success of National Institute of Ocean Technology’s research vessel Sagar Nidhi in locating the debris of the aircraft in the seafloor. Scientists are working on a mathematical model, said the director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Sciences (INCOIS) Satheesh C Shenoi, who also holds the additional charge of NIOT director. That was how a missing Air France flight was located in the bed of Atlantic Ocean after two years.
With 228 passengers and crew aboard, Air France Flight AF 447 disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009. During the first two years, the search party tried four separate times - the first went on for six days after the aircraft went missing, and the second was acoustic searches to detect pings.
29/07/16 C Shivakumar/New Indian Express
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The AN-32 carrying 29 passengers, had plunged into the sea on July 22 soon after taking off from Chennai. The black box of an aircraft is usually the only hope when the emergency locator transmitter (ELT) fails. The black box emits signals for 30 days - it was due to that the Coast Guard plane’s debris was retrieved from the sea after the ROV, MSV Olympic Canyon, detected its signals.
All hopes now lie on the success of National Institute of Ocean Technology’s research vessel Sagar Nidhi in locating the debris of the aircraft in the seafloor. Scientists are working on a mathematical model, said the director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Sciences (INCOIS) Satheesh C Shenoi, who also holds the additional charge of NIOT director. That was how a missing Air France flight was located in the bed of Atlantic Ocean after two years.
With 228 passengers and crew aboard, Air France Flight AF 447 disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009. During the first two years, the search party tried four separate times - the first went on for six days after the aircraft went missing, and the second was acoustic searches to detect pings.
29/07/16 C Shivakumar/New Indian Express
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