Search on to locate missing IAF transport plane

September 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The search was still on Thursday to find the missing Russian engineer of a cargo ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip coast Wednesday, officials said. Twenty six of the 27 crew members onboard the ship have been rescued.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Air Force (IAF) Wednesday evening pressed into service a frontline Sukhoi SU-30MKI combat jet that has night vision capabilities to locate the missing helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

August 3rd, 2009 JAKARTA - Indonesian search and rescue workers have failed to locate an aircraft with 15 people and two babies on board that disappeared shortly after takeoff in the eastern province of Papua, officials said Monday. Several rescue planes were dispatched to search for the Twin Otter plane belonging to the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines that went missing Sunday in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province.

August 3rd, 2009 Search begins for missing Indonesian planeJAKARTA — Search planes hunted Monday for an aircraft carrying 16 people that is believed to have crashed in eastern Indonesia. Four planes were flying close to the route that the Twin Otter was taking before it lost contact with flight controllers Sunday over the remote Papua region, said Air Force Col.

August 2nd, 2009 JAKARTA - A small plane with 16 people on board went missing in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua Sunday, the state-run Antara news agency reported. The Twin Otter plane, belonging to the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airline, was flying from Sentani airport in the provincial capital of Jayapura, to Bintang district's Oksibit airport, Antara said.

July 15th, 2009 TAIPEI - A Taiwanese Air Force F-5F jet is believed to have crashed during a training missing over the Taiwan Strait Wednesday morning. The twin-seat F-5F took off from the Chingchuangkang Air Base on the west coast at 11.14 a.m.

July 15th, 2009 TAIPEI - A Taiwanese Air Force F-5F plane went missing while training over the Taiwan Strait Wednesday morning, according to a media report. The twin-seat F-5F lost contact with the air base while flying over the Penghu Islands, the archipelago halfway between Taiwan and China, the TV channel ETTV said.

July 7th, 2009 Divers, investigators in Comoros search for planeNAIROBI, Kenya — A Comoran official says little debris and no bodies from the crashed Yemenia Airways plane have been found, but predicts that will change once the exact location of the plane's black boxes are pinpointed. One 12-year-old girl survived by clinging to floating debris for up to 13 hours after the June 30 plane crash, but 152 other passengers and crew are still missing from Flight 626.

June 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Police Wednesday began a massive search operation to locate the Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft that went missing Tuesday in the mountainous northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh after two helicopters called off their search due to bad weather, officials said. The cargo plane with 12 defence personnel on board went missing midair Tuesday afternoon after it took from Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China's Tibet region.

June 10th, 2009 GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI - The bodies of all 13 defence personnel on board the AN-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) that had crashed in Arunachal Pradesh Tuesday were located Wednesday in the wreakage of the plane, officials said. The 13 bodies and the wreckage was been located on Wednesday afternoon from Tato, 70 km east of Mechuka From where the ill-fated plane had taken off, a senior IAF official told IANS, requesting anonymity.

June 9th, 2009 GUWAHATI - A twin-engine Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 cargo aircraft with 12 defence personnel on board went missing Tuesday after it took off from a forward air base in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China, officials said. While the IAF has declared the plane to be "missing", no contact with it had been established with it till 10 p.m., eight hours after it went missing off the radar screens, and it is feared to have crashed, other officials said.

June 9th, 2009 AGARTALA - An Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft with 12 defence personnel on board went missing Tuesday on a flight in Arunachal Pradesh. IAF authorities here feared that the AN-32 plane may have crashed.

June 9th, 2009 GUWAHATI - A twin-engine Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 cargo aircraft with 12 defence personnel on board went missing Tuesday afternoon soon after it took off from a forward air base in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China, and is feared to have crashed, an official said. While the IAF has declared the plane to be "missing", no contact with it had been established till 11 p.m., nine hours after it disappeared from the radar screens, and it is feared to have crashed, the official said.

June 3rd, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday that the authorities are certain they found the remains of the missing Air France passenger plane around midday in the Atlantic Ocean. A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) plane found a "set of fragments" spread over a five-kilometre radius some 640 km off the island Fernando de Noronha, Jobim said.

June 1st, 2009 PARIS/RIO DE JANEIRO - An Air France flight with 228 people on board has been lost over the Atlantic Monday morning, sparking a major search mission off the Brazilian coast. The Airbus A330-200, flight number AF 447, left Rio de Janeiro for Paris, but radio contact was lost with the plane shortly after 0600 GMT, reports in both countries said.