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Coast Guard's Dornier Aircraft still missing, search operations to intensify
Chennai, June 10 (IBNS): The Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard, which went missing on Monday night with three crew members while on a surveillance sortie over the seas, has still not been located.
The Coast Guard has said it would deploy more ships to intensify its search operation to locate the aircraft, which went missing after it took off from Chennai.
So far, eight ships belonging to the Coast Guard and the Indian Navy have been deployed in the search operations, apart from the advanced Boeing Poseidon P-8I surveillance aircraft.
Reports said the aircraft took off at around 5-30 pm but then lost contact. It was suppose to return to the base by 10 pm.
It was last tracked 16 km off the coast of Chidambaram, about 200 km south of Chennai, by the airport radar in Tiruchirapalli.
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