Chennai sources have stated that after 48 hours of frantic search involving assets drawn from the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, the Indian Air Force (IAF) authorities have lodged a formal complaint with Tamil Nadu police over the missing AN-32 aircraft.
A senior police official has told that they have received a complaint that Air Force’s AN-32 transport aircraft has gone missing and the complaint was lodged last night with Selaiyur police.
The official has told that the complaint has told that 29 personnel on board AN-32 and the aircraft have gone missing and among the missing personnel is one person from Tamil Nadu and such a complaint has been lodged for legal purposes and a similar plaint was filed when Coast Guard’s Dornier aircraft went missing last year.
Meanwhile, the search operations for the AN-32 aircraft involving multiple agencies continued for the third consecutive day and IAF’s Port Blair-bound AN-32 transport aircraft went missing after it took off from the Tambaram air base in Chennai by 8.30 a.m. on July 22nd.
