Search continues for missing IAF plane

The fate of the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Aircraft AN-32, which went missing on Friday morning with 29 passengers on board, is still not known even as search operations were on in full swing on Saturday. Massive search operations continued in Bay of Bengal and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar took an aerial review of the operations from Chennai.

AN-32 took off from the Tambaram Air Force Station at 8.30 am on Friday and it was supposed to reach Port Blair after three hours. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Srinagar, to impart a healing touch, found very few takers, with trader bodies refusing to meet him, local newspapers reported.

Tensions were further