Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Choudhary has thanked the Central government for ending the mystery of the crash of the Indian Air Force AN-32 aircraft that went missing over the Bay of Bengal in 2016.
He also said that India has finally got the technology to go deep into the sea and detect debris in the seabed.
He said, “It took so much time, but finally we have got the technology to go into the deep sea and detect such things in the seabed, we are very grateful to the Ministry of Earth Sciences for facilitating this and being able to find the debris.” Are.”
The National Institute of Ocean Technology has succeeded in locating the wreckage of an Indian Air Force transport aircraft which went missing with 29 people on board nearly seven years ago on July 22, 2016.
With the help of AUV, the wreckage of the AN-32 aircraft was found at a depth of about 3.4 km in the Bay of Bengal.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement, “After examining the photographs, it was found that it is consistent with the AN-32 aircraft. “There are no reports of any other aircraft missing at the probable crash site, so this points to the aircraft debris possibly being that of the crashed IAF aircraft An-32 (K-2743).”
National Institute of Ocean Technology functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
The ministry said an AUV with deep-sea exploration capability was recently deployed at the last known location of the missing AN-32 aircraft. The discovery was made at a depth of 3,400 metres.
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