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List of defence personnel on-board missing AN-32 IAF plane released

Even as the search operations continue for the fifth day, here are the names of all 29 personnel.

TNIE online desk

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: Even as the search operations continue for the fifth day, here are the names of all 29 personnel on-board the missing aircraft.

Pilot P Badsara, Flying Officer P K Nandal, Flight Leutinant Kunal Barpete, JWO R Ranjan, Corporal G Chaudhary, Leading aircraft Man Kapil, Flight leutinant Deepika, Sergeant Akhilesh, Sergeant Bipin Kumar, Leading aircraft Man (LAC) L K Tripathi, Aircraft Man Raghuvir Verma, Non combatant enrolled (NCE) Navjot Singh, NCE Ravidev Singh, NCEP P Chand, NCE Mukesh Thakur, NCE C S Yadav, Sepoy Eknathak,

Army: Naik Vimal IP, Sepoy N Ginzasiam,

Navy: AF (HSK-II) R V Prasad Babu, AF (SK) Purna Chandra, AF (SK) Charan Maharana, TMM Chinna Rao, G Srinivasa Rao, CM (F) S Sambamurthy, Exmainer Bhupendra singh, AF (HSK) P Nagendra Rao, PO Log Sajeev Kumar.

Coastguard: R Muthu Krishnan

Search for the missing AN-32 Indian Air Force plane continued with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar saying that around four-five search leads had turned out to be "bad".

The AN-32 which went missing on July 22 with 29 people on board remains untraced despite massive search operations in the Bay of Bengal, the authorities said on Tuesday.

Parrikar told reporters that the agencies are trying to concentrate on some links or sound emitting from some area in the sea. 

He also discounted reports of the airworthiness of the AN-32, saying it is one of "the safest aircraft the IAF flies".

(With inputs from IANS)

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