IAF AN-32 Aircraft Missing

[Amaa'n]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1135491128646443009

@Windjammer @BHarwana

I hope IFF was "ON" this time and there were no accidents

 

[Areesh]

2 air crafts lost in one week by IAF!!

Good, keep the excellent work going. Shabash.

2??

Which is the other one?

 

[crankthatskunk]

2??

Which is the other one?

That's the one to come.

 

[war&peace]

From Jorhat to Menchuka, it is only 202 km along the light of sight so it can the flight distance should not be more than 300 km

 

[usman012]

An Indian Air Force aircraft has been reported missing after it took off from the Jorhat airbase in Assam on Monday afternoon.

The AN-32 aircraft took off from Jorhat at around 12:25 with 13 people on board. It was scheduled to land in Arunachal Pradesh's Menchuka airfield. It is reported that the aircraft last contacted ground operations at 1 pm.

After the AN-32 did not reach Mechuka Advance Landing Ground, the IAF initiated the overdue action. The plane had eight crew members and five passengers. According to the IAF, all available resources have been employed to locate the aircraft. In particular, a Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft and C-130 Special Ops aircraft have been deployed to locate the AN-32 aircraft.
In June 2009, an IAF AN-32 plane had crashed over the Rinchi Hill near Heyo village in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh killing all the 13 defence personnel on board. The wreckage of the plane, carrying seven IAF personnel and six Army soldiers, was found about 30 km from Mechuka Advance Landing Ground, in the district located about 60 km from the Indo-Chinese Line of Actual Control.,

The plane got airborne from Mechuka Advance Landing Ground at 2 pm on June 9, 2009, and was going to Mohanbari Air Force Station in Assam. But the plane vanished from the radar within a few minutes after getting airborne.

The medium-lift Ukrainian-made Antonov-32 transport aircraft joined the IAF fleet in 1984. The force at present operates five squadrons of about 100 AN-32s, mostly used for carrying Army troops and supplies for them in forward areas along the Line of Control with Pakistan and Line of Actual Control with China.

In September of 2016, another AN-32 with seven persons on board, went missing after it took off from Chennai for Port Blair. The aircraft was not found despite a massive search operation for it. (Full report here)
https://zeenews.india.com/india/iaf...after-takeoff-from-assams-jorhat-2208691.html

I hope they found the wreckage soon.

Lolo! The pilot must have defected to China to get better food .

 

[BHarwana]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1135491128646443009

@Windjammer @BHarwana

It went missing so this means that Indian Radar coverage between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh is weak?

 

[crankthatskunk]

The hills below interfered with the Pilot sight of view, causing the loss of the jet. Chief Air Marshal Modi.

 

[TechMan]

May be they should look behind clouds!?

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Assami freedom fighters might have shot it down.

 

[Amaa'n]

ops!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1135516087674687489

It went missing so this means that Indian Radar coverage between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh is weak?

woh kia hai na---aaj zara badal zaida thay....meine kaha --- Bhej de

 

[BHarwana]

ops!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1135516087674687489

woh kia hai na---aaj zara badal zaida thay....meine kaha --- Bhej de

Lol yes the clouds which IAF used to evade Radar.

 

[Maarkhoor]

It went missing so this means that Indian Radar coverage between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh is weak?

Clouds

 

[Blueskiez 2001]

RIP

 

[Windjammer]

Wreckage of missing IAF's AN-32 aircraft spotted in Arunachal
There is no news of the officials and crew members who were on board the AN-32 aircraft.

Mayank Singh
Express News Service

Wreckage of an Indian Air Force AN-32 transport aircraft which went missing with eight crew members and five passengers aboard has been reportedly spotted near Payam in Arunachal Pradesh.

There is no news of the officials and crew members who were on board.

The IAF launched Sukhoi-30 fighters and C-130 Special Operation aircraft on a search mission to trace the ill-fated aircraft.

The aircraft was heading from Jorhat in Assam to Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh. The transport aircraft took off from Jorhat at 12.25 pm but lost touch with the ground agencies after the next 35 minutes.

Sources informed that "An AN-32 aircraft of IAF got airborne today from Jorhat at 1225 hrs for Menchuka Advance Landing Ground. The aircraft last contacted ground agencies at 1300 hrs, thereafter there has been no contact. Since the aircraft did not reach the airfield, overdue action was initiated by IAF."

The Air Force has employed all available resources to locate the aircraft. Radar pictures are being studied and the helicopters have been put into action, the sources added.

Earlier in July 2016, another AN-32 had gone down into the Bay of Bengal with its 29 passengers onboard. It was going from Chennai to Port Blair.

Russian manufactured AN-32s were inducted in early 80s and around 100 are serving with the Air Force.

 

[AUz]

What kind of unprofessional junkies are iaf? They lose so many aircrafts due to malfunctions and pilot errors. They get r@ped by PAF in air combat, and they shoot down their own helicopters in panic...

Srilankans are probably better at air power than these backward junks. I don’t blame them tho...most likely ISI’s assets cause these regular crashes and even indian higher ups know about it. That’s why they stay frustrated af from ISI