Pilot's Wife saw AN-32 Going off Radar while Managing ATC in Jorhat

The pilot's wife watched and listened to her husband's jet carrying 12 others go missing on the radar and watched the movement of the jet closer than anyone else as the implications of the scenario that was playing out in front of her started dawning on her.

According to a report in the Indian Express, Sandhya was monitoring the Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Traffic Control (ATC) room at 12:25 pm when her husband's AN-32 took off from Jorhat in Assam.

The jet was headed towards Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh when it went off the radar around 1 pm on Monday.

It has been four days since, but the jet is yet to be traced while search operations have been intensified. The Indian Navy has also joined the search operations to trace the missing transport aircraft.

Soon after the aircraft went off the radar, Sandhya called up their family in Haryana's Palwal, Ashish's uncle Udaivir Singh told the Indian Express.

Ashish and Sandhya got married last year in February and have been living in Assam. They recently visited their family in Haryana last month.

The saga of the missing AN-32 continues and only time will tell where this tale leads.

More to follow.

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