SEARCH FOR MISSING COAST GUARD DORNIER
The search for missing ICG aircraft continues uninterrupted by Coast Guard and Naval ships and aircraft for the sixth consecutive day. Submarine INS Sindhudhvaj has arrived in the area at 2200 hrs on 13 Jun and commenced underwater search to confirm the transmission of 37.5 Khz from Sonar Locator Beacon (SLB) of missing aircraft, as reported by INS Sandhayak on 12 Jun 15. The outcome of submarine search is expected by late evening. In order to provide further fillip to the search, ICGS Vighraha has been embarked with National Institute of Oceanography (NIOT) team and a black box detector. The search probe will be lowered at sea for reception of the signal from the beacon of the aircraft.
A total of eight ships and aircraft of the ICG and IN continue to search in the most probable area. A total of 124 hours have been flown by the ICG and IN aircraft towards search.
National Remote Sensing Centre Hyderabad was requested to provide with the satellite imagery for analysis of the area for possible location of the aircraft. They have intimated presence of cloud cover in the most probable area precluding detection of any object on sea surface. Second imagery by the microwave satellite is scheduled PM today.
In addition to the ongoing massive search for the missing aircraft, a distress from fishing boat Indra was promptly responded to by ICGS Abheek. The distressed fishing boat along with 10 fishermen were rescued and safely brought to Puducherry harbor. The search for the missing aircraft at the time of this edition of the press release continues.
No comments:
Post a Comment