Navy divers on Friday recovered the body of Lieutenant Abhinav Nagori from the fuselage of the crashed Dornier aircraft from a depth of 50-60 metres off Goa coast. The body is being taken to Goa.
“Flight data recorders also have been recovered from the fuselage and search and rescue operations have been called off,” Navy officials informed. The Board of Inquiry will analyse the recorders to ascertain the exact cause of the crash.
The aircraft was on a routine training mission with three personnel on board when it lost contact with air traffic control 25 nautical miles off Goa coast on the night of March 24.
While the body of Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat was recovered late Thursday night, Commander Nikhil Kuldip Joshi was rescued on the night of the crash by a fishing boat.
On Thursday INS Makar, a naval hydrographic vessel detected a large metallic object using her side scan sonar which was later identified as the 16 metre long fuselage section of the crashed Dornier.
Sea of Risk: Recent accidents in the Indian Navy
Mumbai
- INS Betwa (F39) - January, 2014 (Naval base)
- > INS Sindhuratna - February, 2014 (Mumbai coast)
- > INS Kolkata - March, 2014 (Mazagon Dock)
- > INS Ganga - May, 2014 (Naval Dockyard)
Visakhapatnam
- INS Airavat (L24) - February 03, 2014
- > INS Kora - October, 2014 (Visakhapatnam coast)
- > Torpedo Vessel TRV 72 - March, 2014 (South off Visakhapatnam)
