Finding a needle in a haystack would be easy money and a task the Indian coast guard would have preferred any day over the hunt for CG 791. For an organisation that's primed for search-and-rescue missions and prides itself on saving a life every other day, its largest and longest ever sea hunt is also its most painful.
For more than two weeks now, the coast guard has been searching for one of its own - a twin-engine Dornier maritime reconnaissance aircraft -- just over a year old, in good service condition and with one of the most experienced pilots at the helm -- that went missing in perfect weather barely half an hour before it was to land in Chennai after a sea patrol mission.
The sudden disappearance of a sturdy aircraft without any warning or distress call is always a confounding mystery - cut to March last year, when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-200, vanished and still remains untraced.
27/06/15 Manu Pubby/Economic Times
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For more than two weeks now, the coast guard has been searching for one of its own - a twin-engine Dornier maritime reconnaissance aircraft -- just over a year old, in good service condition and with one of the most experienced pilots at the helm -- that went missing in perfect weather barely half an hour before it was to land in Chennai after a sea patrol mission.
The sudden disappearance of a sturdy aircraft without any warning or distress call is always a confounding mystery - cut to March last year, when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-200, vanished and still remains untraced.
27/06/15 Manu Pubby/Economic Times
