All 13 Bodies of Crashed AN 32 Aircraft Recovered

Itanagar, June 20, 2019:

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has recovered the bodies of all 13 people who died in an AN-32 crash on June 3 near Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, reports have said.

The first seven bodies were recovered on June 13. On Friday, the search teams recovered the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of the aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh.

A team of 16 mountaineers from the IAF and the Indian Army along with five civilian mountaineers combed the site of crash 16 km north of Lipo, northeast of Tato under West Siang district, at an approximate elevation of 12,000 feet.

The AN-32 took off on June 3 from the Jorhat airbase for the Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground in Arunachal's Shi-Yomi district bordering China, but lost contact with the ground agencies within 35 minutes.

After the disappearance of the aircraft, the IAF commenced extensive search operations under the direct supervision of the Eastern Air Command headquarters at Shillong.

It was finally located in Payum Circle under West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh many days after the aircraft had gone missing.

It may be mentioned that a search operation to retrieve the mortal remains of six of the 13 people who were killed in the AN-32 crash on June 3 were hampered due to inclement weather in the area, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Saturday.

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