Union defence minister Manohar Parrikar made a brief stop at Chennai’s Tambaram airforce base on Saturday morning to monitor the search operations for a missing Indian Airforce (IAF) plane. After India decided in 2009 to get the aircraft upgraded, 40 were upgraded in Ukraine and the rest in the country. The incident comes a year after a Coast Guard Dornier aircraft with three crew members on board for a routine surveillance flight went missing. Those on board the missing plane included six crew members, 15 personnel from the IAF, army, navy and Coast Guard, and eight civilians who were family members of the personnel. Four Coast Guard ships are also involved in the operations.

Source: Hindustan Times July 23, 2016 03:30 UTC