Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard missing with three crew members

A Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard has gone missing with three crew members onboard. The aircraft CG-791 had been inducted into service last year and it had taken off from Chennai at 5.30pm. It was in touch with the airport in Tiruchirappalli shortly before it went missing at 9.20pm. The incident took place around 16 nautical miles off the coast of Chidambaram, somewhere between Cuddalore and Karaikal. It was being flown by a “highly experienced crew”.
This has been informed by a top coast guard official and reported in telegraphindia.com dated 9 June 2015.

The Dornier cannot fly above 10,000 feet and are mainly used for low altitude maritime surveillance.
A massive search operation has been launched with nine ships backed by a long-range maritime surveillance aircraft. It has, so far, not succeeded in finding the Coast Guard Dornier. The aircraft had been deployed along the Tamil Nadu coast and Palk Bay from the Chennai Coast Guard Air Station and it did not return to the base.
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