Chennai: Two more naval ships and a National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) vessel are set to join the massive operation to locate the missing Coast Guard Dornier aircraft which continued without any headway for the third day today.
Naval submarine INS Sindhudhwaj and survey Ship INS Sandhayak fitted with sonar equipment will arrive shortly to aid search operations for the missing CG plane and its three crew members, a top official said.
"While the submarine is expected to arrive tomorrow late night, the other ship (Sandhayak) with side scan sonar will join our search efforts midnight today," Inspector General S P Sharma, Commander, Coast Guard (East), Chennai, told PTI.
"We have requisitioned the services of a NIOT research vessel to join the search operations and it will be arriving at the search area as soon as possible," he said.
11/06/15 PTI/Business Standard
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Naval submarine INS Sindhudhwaj and survey Ship INS Sandhayak fitted with sonar equipment will arrive shortly to aid search operations for the missing CG plane and its three crew members, a top official said.
"While the submarine is expected to arrive tomorrow late night, the other ship (Sandhayak) with side scan sonar will join our search efforts midnight today," Inspector General S P Sharma, Commander, Coast Guard (East), Chennai, told PTI.
"We have requisitioned the services of a NIOT research vessel to join the search operations and it will be arriving at the search area as soon as possible," he said.
11/06/15 PTI/Business Standard
