India said Friday it had likely found wreckage from an Indian Air Force transport plane that went missing over the sea almost eight years ago with 29 people aboard.
A Russian-built Antonov An-32 was carrying service personnel and six crew members during a routine courier service to India’s remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in July 2016.
It last made contact with air traffic control 15 minutes after taking off from an air force base near the southern city of Chennai.
Search and rescue efforts at the time failed to find any trace of the aircraft after its disappearance.
The ministry of defence said a deep-sea drone surveying the ocean floor in the Bay of Bengal had found debris from a crashed aircraft at a depth of 3,400 metres (11,150 feet) around 140 nautical miles (310 kilometres) south of Chennai.
The images were “found to be conforming with an An-32 aircraft”, the ministry said…
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