An Indian Navy team began searching for the trainer aircraft on Friday, according to an official, the aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur on August 20. Officials said, bad weather forced the search to be canceled on Thursday at 6 p.m.
On Thursday, the bodies of the trainee pilot and his instructor—who were in the two-seater aircraft—were discovered in the Chandil dam.
“After receiving a request from the Seraikela-Kharswan district administration, a 19-member Indian Navy team from Visakhapatnam resumed the search for the missing trainer aircraft. Due to bad weather yesterday, we were forced to call off the search at 6:00 p.m,” the official said.
According to the official, the bodies of pilot-in-command Captain Jeet Satru Anand and trainee pilot Shubhrodeep Dutta will undergo post-mortem examinations at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur.
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