The AN32 disappeared over the Bay of Bengal on July 22 in shocking echoes of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
A huge search, reportedly the biggest in Indian aviation history, has still not found any signs of the jet or the defence personnel who were on board.
The plane, which was carrying out a routine resupply journey, was carrying 21 Indian military personnel, six crew members and two civilians - believed to be family members of soldiers on board.
Made in Russia, the AN-32 craft was flying to Port Blair - the capital of India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands - when the pilot announced he was changing course to avoid a storm cloud at 23,000ft.
Just minutes later, the aircraft dropped “very fast” as it moved near a radar blind spot 270km east of Chennai.
Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar insisted authorities still had no idea what happened to the plane, or why it disappeared off the radar.
He said: “It just disappeared – no SOS, no transmission at any frequency – that is the worrying part.”
The plane was equipped with a emergency transmitters which pilots activate in the cockpit but an official, who said they had “been looking from signals from all three," had so far received nothing back.
16/08/16 Vickiie Oliphant/Express
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A huge search, reportedly the biggest in Indian aviation history, has still not found any signs of the jet or the defence personnel who were on board.
The plane, which was carrying out a routine resupply journey, was carrying 21 Indian military personnel, six crew members and two civilians - believed to be family members of soldiers on board.
Made in Russia, the AN-32 craft was flying to Port Blair - the capital of India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands - when the pilot announced he was changing course to avoid a storm cloud at 23,000ft.
Just minutes later, the aircraft dropped “very fast” as it moved near a radar blind spot 270km east of Chennai.
Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar insisted authorities still had no idea what happened to the plane, or why it disappeared off the radar.
He said: “It just disappeared – no SOS, no transmission at any frequency – that is the worrying part.”
The plane was equipped with a emergency transmitters which pilots activate in the cockpit but an official, who said they had “been looking from signals from all three," had so far received nothing back.
16/08/16 Vickiie Oliphant/Express
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