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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

IAF An-32 crashes in Arunachal Pradesh

An Air Force transport plane with at least 14 people on board crashed on Tuesday in Arunachal Pradesh. Two helicopters have been sent to find out the debris of the plane.According to sources, IAF AN-32 aircraft with eight IAF personnel and six civilians took off from Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh and went missing shortly after. It was expected to reach Tawang area.The AN-32 plane had flown from Dibrugarh in Assam to Mechuka in Arunachal from where it took off again with the civilians for Jorhat at around 2 pm, after which the aircraft went missing, said IAF spokesman Wing Commander P Sahu.Authorities have issued orders for conducting an investigation into the tragic incident.

7 comments:

This is terrible. Any Russian type left that has not crashed this month?

RIP

I blame Indian maintenance personal not the Russian designers.

Anon@June 9, 2009 10:51 AM
Since you are so quick to pass judgements what do you say about PAF's higher attrition rate since 2006.

don't know why some fools blame everytime russia

as if c130 never crashed

and these aircraft are merely 20 year old

Let’s just say that last few weeks were really bad for the IAF and this bad luck is still not gone and wait for the investigations. Both Indian and Pakistani planes are really old and both air forces are looking to replace or upgrade them in next decade

to asina defence

its due to bad whether specially when area is hilly

when first 2 an32 was coming from soviet union to india and in their last leg of flight form oman to jamnagar they disappeard suddenly???

due to bad whether


india has plane to upgrade thses and going to make IL214 with russia

Well if u were from Arunachal you would have known the terrain in a better way and would get to know the problem pilot faces there.
And regarding russian's technical failure I think its very immature to blame someone so instantly. Because in the recent report put forward by russian and indian experts with regard to the Sukoi crash, it came out that it was pilot's fault which led to the crash.

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