Itanagar, June 10 : Security forces today left for Pale Hills in West Singhbhum district even as IAF began aerial reconnaissance to trace the transport aircraft that went missing over the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh last evening and was feared to have crashed.
Additional Superintendent of Police of West Siang district H Lanin said a joint team of army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and police left for Pale Hills, some 60-70 km from Mechuka, in search of the aircraft after inhabitants of the area informed that they saw some smoke after "lightning followed by thunder" yesterday.
As there was no road they have to walk through dense forest for 4-5 hours to reach the spot located between Manigaon and Tato near Sino-India border.
The transport aircraft, AN 32, was on a routine air maintenance sortie and was carrying 13 personnel, including seven IAF personnel and six army jawans, an IAF spokesman confirmed.
Meanwhile, IAF helicopters were scouting the Mechuka- Jorhat route from where the aircraft went missing, but so far they could not locate the aircraft.
The plane had taken off from the Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh to Jorhat in Assam at around 2 pm after which it went missing.
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