It was carrying service personnel to the strategic islands near the Malacca Straits, where India has a military base. A navy spokesman said surveillance planes and ships were searching for the aircraft. There were six crew on the aircraft, a workhorse of the air force. The Russian-made AN-32 was on its way to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar chain of islands, from the southeast city of Chennai when it disappeared from radar.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2016 08:26 UTC