Tag: An 32 Crash

New Delhi: All 13 people on board the AN-32 aircraft which crashed in Arunachal Pradesh are dead, the IAF said after a team of rescuers searched the wreckage of the plane in a heavily forested mountainous terrain on Thursday. An IAF official said there were no survivors from the crash of the AN-32 aircraft. Those […]

New Delhi: The Congress Thursday paid tributes to the 13 people killed in the IAF aircraft crash in Arunachal Pradesh, saying the country shall remain indebted for their valiant contributions. Congress president Rahul Gandhi expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the “13 brave men in uniform”. All 13 people on board the AN-32 […]

New Delhi: The operation to retrieve the bodies of the 13 air warriors on board the ill-fated AN-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh remained suspended Tuesday, even as a ground team comprising Garud commandos, civilian porters and hunters was on its way to the site on foot, IAF officials said. Shillong-based IAF spokesperson Wing […]

Itanagar: Bodies of six Air Force personnel, who died in the AN-32 aircraft crash, have been airlifted from the site of the accident in the Pari mountain range to Aalo in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, a senior official said. The team, which had been searching for plane wreckage and remains of those on […]

New Delhi: Eighteen days after its An-32 transport aircraft went down in Arunachal Pradesh, the IAF on Thursday recovered six bodies and seven mortal remains of the air warriors from the crash site. According to officials, the IAF has made all arrangements to airlift the bodies and mortal remains of the personnel by helicopters from […]

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday paid tributes to five of the 13 air-warriors, who lost their lives in the AN-32 crash in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3. Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa was also present at the ceremony held at the Palam Technical area here. On Thursday, Air Marshal R.D. Mathur, Air […]

Itanagar: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is making all efforts to airlift the stranded 12-member rescue team from the site where the AN-32 aircraft crashed in Arunachal Pradesh, an IAF official said Saturday. The team is stranded in the border area of Siang and Shi-Yomi districts for 17 days now at a height of 12,000 […]

Guwahati: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday evening retrieved all the 15 members of the search and rescue team engaged in the search of the AN-32 aircraft who got stranded in the crash site along the Indo-China border, said defence spokesperson Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh. Singh said the 15-member search and rescue team was […]