A Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard with three personnel onboard went missing late Monday night, hours after it took off from Chennai.
Coast guard Dornier aircraft with three crew members missing off Chennai coast
The aircraft went off radar at around 9:23 pm in Tiruchirapalli last night after taking off from Chennai at 5:30 pm.
The Dornier aircraft, which was on a routine sortie, went missing about 95 miles south off Chennai.
Sitanshu Kar, spokesperson of Ministry of Defence, took to Twitter to confirm that the aircraft has been missing.
He added that the missing Dornier aircraft was inducted in the Coast Guard in 2014 and “was being flown by highly experienced crew”.