Finally, the Debris of the missing Indian Airforce aircraft which went missing on 22 July 2016 has been found.
The Aircraft, a 32-K2743 had 29 people on board when it went off the radar over the Bay of Bengal and its disappearance has remained a mystery up to date. However, the Indian Airforce confirmed on Friday that the debris has been located at a depth of 3.4 km about 310 km off the Chennai coast.
“The National Institute of Ocean Technology which functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, had recently deployed an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with deep sea exploration capability at the last known location of the missing An-32. This search was conducted at a depth of 3400 m using multiple payloads, including a multi-beam SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging), synthetic aperture SONAR and high-resolution photography.
Analysis of search images had indicated the presence of debris of a crashed aircraft on the sea bed approximately, 140 nautical miles (approx. 310 Km) from the Chennai coast.” In 2014, Malaysia 370 disappeared from radar while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with over 227 people on board and 12 crew members.
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