Navy Team Pulls out Wreckage of Missing Aircraft from Jharkhand's Chandil Dam

Jamshedpur:Indian Navy personnel recovered the wreckage of the missing two-seater aircraft, Cessna-152 VT-Taj, from the Chandil dam in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, an official said on Tuesday.

The aircraft went missing after taking off from Sonari Aerodrome in Jamshedpur on August 20. The bodies of pilot Captain Jeet Satru and trainee pilot Subrodeep Dutta were recovered on Thursday by an NDRF team.

The Indian Navy team began the search operation in the Chandil dam around 10 a.m. on Monday after locating the Cessna-152 aircraft a day earlier, the official said.

Navy personnel pulled out the aircraft's wreckage on Monday night, using a balloon to lift it from a depth of 15-18 meters in the dam. The aircraft had crashed into the reservoir shortly after taking off from Sonari Aerodrome.

The aircraft belonged to the private aviation company Alchemist Aviation Private Limited.