Itanagar: Mystery continued to shroud the fate of the missing Pawan Hans chopper in Arunachal Pradesh with three people on board as search parties failed to trace it for the fifth day today
Five choppers including M-17, A1-30 and a Chetak of the Army and Indian Air Force conducted 11 sorties during the day, while Army, IRB, state police and locals conducted ground search in Tirap district to trace the chopper but in vain, state civil aviation secretary B M Mishra said.
"We are trying to utilise all available resources to locate the chopper as per available leads from the locals who claimed to have sighted the chopper on the day it went missing. Despite our all-out efforts we have not succeeded till now," Mishra added.
The search operation is concentrated in the thick jungles between Sanliam and Dadam villages in Tirap district.
08/08/15 PTI/Times of India
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Five choppers including M-17, A1-30 and a Chetak of the Army and Indian Air Force conducted 11 sorties during the day, while Army, IRB, state police and locals conducted ground search in Tirap district to trace the chopper but in vain, state civil aviation secretary B M Mishra said.
"We are trying to utilise all available resources to locate the chopper as per available leads from the locals who claimed to have sighted the chopper on the day it went missing. Despite our all-out efforts we have not succeeded till now," Mishra added.
The search operation is concentrated in the thick jungles between Sanliam and Dadam villages in Tirap district.
08/08/15 PTI/Times of India
