New Delhi: An Indian Air Force plane carrying 29 people went missing on Friday on a flight to a remote island chain in the Bay of Bengal, the defence ministry said. The defence ministry said the submarine had been deployed to locate transmissions from an emergency locator beacon on the AN-32 aircraft. The plane is a workhorse of the air force, chosen for its ability to operate from short runways. The plane went missing about 300 km east of Chennai, the ministry said in a statement. “It was a routine courier mission to Port Blair, the plane was airborne at 8:30am and due to land at 11:30,” air force spokesman Wing Commander Anupam Banerjee said.

Source: Mint July 22, 2016 08:19 UTC