New Delhi: The Union Government has placed several resources in its disposal to trace the missing A-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force.
A long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft, of Indian Navy, was deployed on Tuesday, as a part of a massive search operation to trace the transport aircraft.
A fleet of fixed-wing aircraft and choppers were also deployed to locate the missing Antonov AN-32 aircraft in the mountainous terrain in and around Menchuka. According to the officials, ground troops have also been deployed to carry out a search operation.
The search to find the missing aircraft entered day 2 and ISRO's satellite is being used to scan the frontier.
IAF is using two Mi-17 helicopters, two Advanced light helicopters along with other aircraft to search the area covered with dense forest.
The P8i aircraft of the Indian Navy has a very powerful Synthetic Aperture Radar, which shall be utilized during the SAR sweeps to locate the missing aircraft.
According to sources, search operations in the North East involves complex challenges due to its terrain and the weather.
The Russian-origin transport, aircraft AN-32, with 13 people on board, went missing around thickly-forested Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday afternoon around 33 minutes after taking off from Jorhat in Assam for Menchuka near the border with China.
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