This afternoon, the Navy sent an US-made P8i naval maritime aircraft – also called the submarine hunter – joined the effort to look for the transporter. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s satellites such as RISAT – Radar Imaging Satellite – had also been roped in to help. “P-8 I of #IndianNavy, satellites like RISAT and aircraft equipped with multiple sensors have joined the concerted efforts to locate the missing aircraft,” the IAF spokesperson tweeted. But, an IAF official said, “the terrain is proving to be a big challenge” and the “thick foliage hindering search operations”. This beacon gets automatically activated when the aircraft experiences force in excess of 20 times the gravitational force.

Source: Hindustan Times June 04, 2019 10:28 UTC