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The IAFs An-32 twin-engine aircraft mysteriously disappeared over the Bay of Bengal on July 22, 2016. | Latest News India

The mystery surrounding the Indian Air Force's An-32 transport aircraft, which had gone missing over the Bay of Bengal in 2016, may have been solved after debris from a crashed aircraft was detected off the Chennai coast.

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The wreckage of a transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been located at the depth of around 3.4 km in the Bay of Bengal, nearly seven-and-a-half years after the plane with 29 personnel on board went missing

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, deployed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology, was used to locate the missing aircraft on the sea bed approximately 310 kilometers from the Chennai coast.

The National Institute of Ocean Technology had recently deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle with deep-sea exploration capability at the last known location of the missing An-32 aircraft

The search operation utilized cutting-edge technology, including a multi-beam SONAR, synthetic aperture SONAR, and high-resolution photography. The images captured during the exploration were meticulously examined, confirming the wreckages conformity to that of an An-32 aircraft.

The wreckage of a transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been located at the depth of around 3.4 km in the Bay of Bengal, nearly seven-and-a-half years after the plane with 29 personnel on board went missing.

The debris of an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane with 29 personnel onboard that went missing in 2016 while flying across the Bay of Bengal have been found by a search and rescue team on the sea bed after seven years, an official said on Friday.An ...

The aircraft, with registration K-2743, disappeared on July 22, 2016