An
Indian Air Force plane carrying 29 people went missing Friday morning
during what was supposed to be a flight to an archipelago in the Indian
Ocean, India's military said
.
A
search was underway for the Antonov AN-32 transport plane, which took
off from Chennai at 8:30 a.m. local time and was scheduled to land three
hours later at Port Blair, in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said
Cmdr. Anupam Banerjee, spokesman for the Indian Air Force.
Air
force, navy and coast guard crews were searching for the plane. Details
on who was aboard the plane weren't immediately available.
Port
Blair is the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an Indian
territory consisting of more than 500 islands -- only three dozen of
which are inhabited -- in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometers east
of the Indian subcontinent.
Port Blair's airport is an Indian naval facility that also is used by civil aircraft.
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