New Delhi: An Antonov(AN)-32 plane belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) went missing+ on Friday en route from Tambaram, near Chennai, to Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Neither the aircraft - which had suffered three technical snags earlier in the month - nor the 29 people on board have been found yet. But if it has met with an accident, it won't have been the first time for the AN-32 model+ .
The Aviation Safety Network (ASN) lists 77 occurences in its accident list for the AN-32. Citing a number of sources including news reports, the ASN's website lists at least one accident in every year since 1986 except 1991, 2012 and 2013. 15 of the 77 accidents were suffered by aircraft operated by the IAF, with a total known casualty count of over 50.
The deadliest of these accidents happened in Delhi on March 1999, when an IAF Antonov plane crashed into a concrete water tank in Pappankalan while approaching the runway of Indira Gandhi International Airport. The crash killed the 18 passengers and 4 crew members as well as 3 people on the ground, and left the aircraft "damaged beyond repair", says the website.
More than a decade later, another IAF AN-32 crashed in the mountains near Rinchi village in Arunachal Pradesh, killing the seven IAF crew members and six Indian Army personnel on board, ASN adds.
ASN data show that other lethal accidents occured near Boothgarh in Ludhiana in 1992, in the Ponmudi mountain range in 1990, near Jamnagar in 1986, and near Jammu, also in 1986.
23/07/16 Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar/Times of India
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The Aviation Safety Network (ASN) lists 77 occurences in its accident list for the AN-32. Citing a number of sources including news reports, the ASN's website lists at least one accident in every year since 1986 except 1991, 2012 and 2013. 15 of the 77 accidents were suffered by aircraft operated by the IAF, with a total known casualty count of over 50.
The deadliest of these accidents happened in Delhi on March 1999, when an IAF Antonov plane crashed into a concrete water tank in Pappankalan while approaching the runway of Indira Gandhi International Airport. The crash killed the 18 passengers and 4 crew members as well as 3 people on the ground, and left the aircraft "damaged beyond repair", says the website.
More than a decade later, another IAF AN-32 crashed in the mountains near Rinchi village in Arunachal Pradesh, killing the seven IAF crew members and six Indian Army personnel on board, ASN adds.
ASN data show that other lethal accidents occured near Boothgarh in Ludhiana in 1992, in the Ponmudi mountain range in 1990, near Jamnagar in 1986, and near Jammu, also in 1986.
23/07/16 Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar/Times of India
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