Navy Dornier crashes off the Goa coast

[Ryuzaki]

@TimesNow
#Breaking: Navy Dornier crashes off the Goa coast. 3 officers were on board. 1 crew member retrieved, 2 others still missing.

@TimesNow 3h3 hours ago
The aircraft took off from INS Hansa for a routine sortie late last night.

 

[gau8av]

hope they find the other 2

 

[ejaz007]

Two missing after India navy plane crashes off Goa coast

MUMBAI: A naval aircraft crashed off the western Indian coast leaving two pilots missing, the Indian navy said Wednesday, in the latest of a string of accidents which have hit the force.

Rescue operations were underway after the Indian navy’s Dornier aircraft plunged into the sea some 25 nautical miles off the western holiday state of Goa around 10:00 pm local time (1630 GMT) Tuesday.

“Last evening a navy Dornier during a routine training sortie off Goa ditched into sea,” a navy statement said early Wednesday.

“One survivor rescued. Full scale search and rescue operation launched to locate two more officers (one pilot and one observer),” it added.

It is the latest in a series of deadly disasters to hit the Indian navy, and comes just months after a naval ship sank off the southeastern coast of India leaving one worker dead and four others missing.

A fire aboard a nuclear submarine killed two officers off the Mumbai coast last February which led to the immediate resignation of the navy chief.

Eighteen sailors were also killed in August 2013 when INS Sindhurakshak burst into flames in Mumbai harbour.

Two missing after India navy plane crashes off Goa coast - thenews.com.pk

 

[Major Shaitan Singh]

Nine ships including navy frigates INS Satpura & INS Betwa engaged in search for 2 missing men from downed Dornier off Goa coast.

 

[Major Shaitan Singh]

Indian Navy's Dornier plane crashes off Goa coast; 1 rescued, 2 crew still missing

 

[Abingdonboy]

Body of the female crew member has been located, not sure if she was a pilot or observer.


RIP Officer.

 

[Sneaker]

RIP... she was observer...

 

[Abingdonboy]

The Indian Navy's search teams may have found the wreckage of a surveillance plane that plunged into the Arabian Sea 25 nautical miles southwest of Goa late Tuesday night.

Hydrographic vessel INS Makar — one of the 12 ships carrying out search and rescue operations - on Thursday detected a "large metallic object" on the seabed using its side scan sonar, possibly the crashed Dornier's fuselage. The suspected wreckage is at a depth of 50-60 metres.

Naval divers on board INS Matanga were all set to scour the seabed to inspect the wreckage from the crashed plane, a navy officer said. However, there is still no sign of the two missing naval aviators - sub-lieutenant Abhinav Nagori, the co-pilot, and lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat, observer (navigator).

The India-made Dornier-228 - the first to crash since the planes were inducted in the navy in the early 1990s - took off from Hansa naval air station at 6.30pm on a training sortie and lost radar contact at 10.08pm.

Its pilot, Commander Nikhil Kuldip Joshi - a seasoned hand with more than 4,000 flying hours - miraculously survived the crash and was picked up an hour later by a fishing boat 10 nautical miles from the location where the plane lost contact. The fishermen alerted the navy by dialling a toll-free distress number that was introduced to strengthen coastal security after the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes.

This is the first naval crash with a female officer on board. Lt Shekhawat, who is married to a naval officer, was part of the navy's all-woman marching contingent at the Republic Day parade.


Search teams may have found wreckage of Indian Navy's Dornier

 

[Koovie]

R.I.P.

My condolences to the families and friends of the deceased officer

 

[Abingdonboy]

Late Lt Kiran Shekhawat

 

[ayesha.a]

The deceased and missing officers, Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat (observer) and Sub lieutenant Abhinav Nagori (co-pilot):

 

[Levina]

Late Lt Kiran Shekhawat

RIP soldier!

 

[Hindustani78]

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On the sidelines of the event, Parrikar felicitated fishermen who were instrumental in saving an unconscious pilot of a Dornier (DO 240) aircraft which had crashed off Goa on March 24, 2015.