IAF airlifts stranded rescue team from AN-32 crash site
PTI, Jun 30, 2019, 8:14 AM IST
Itanagar: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday airlifted the stranded 15-member rescue team from the site where the AN-32 aircraft crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3, an official said Saturday.
Shillong-based IAF spokesman Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh said the team — comprising eight personnel of the IAF, four of the Army and three civilians — were airlifted from the crash site using ALH and MI-17 V5 helicopters.
“All the members who were taken to Aalo in West Siang district, are fit and in good health,” he said.
Singh said efforts to airlift the team was delayed due to inclement weather, which improved slightly on Saturday evening, allowing the “risky” helicopter operations to be undertaken.
The members of the rescue team were stranded in the border area of Siang and Shi-Yomi districts for 17 days at a height of 12,000 feet, where they were airdropped and retrieved the bodies of 13 people on board and the black box of the plane.
The Russian AN-32 aircraft went missing 33 minutes after taking off from Assam’s Jorhat on June 3. It was headed to Mechuka in Shi-Yomi district.
The task of retrieving the 13 bodies from the crash site in the Pari mountains in Siang district was completed on June 20.
While six bodies were retrieved on June 19, the remaining seven were recovered the next day, the IAF official said.
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