The wreckage of the An-32 aircraft belonging to the Indian Air Force, which disappeared eight years ago, was found at a depth of more than three kilometers off the coast of India. RIA Newsreferring to the country’s Ministry of Defense.
The aircraft disappeared over the Bay of Bengal on July 22, 2016, during a combat mission. There were 29 people on board. Large-scale search and rescue operations failed to locate missing personnel or aircraft wreckage.
“The National Institute of Ocean Technology, operating under the auspices of the Earth Sciences Administration, recently deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle with deep-sea reconnaissance capabilities to the last known location of the missing An-32,” the defense ministry said.
It was announced that the search was carried out at a depth of 3 thousand 400 meters with special equipment. The resulting images show the wreckage of the plane that crashed on the seabed about 310 kilometers off the coast of Chennai. When the images were examined, it was determined that the wreckage belonged to the An-32 aircraft.
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