29JUNE2019 STATE OBSERVER
The 12-member rescue team, airdropped near the wreckage site of the ill-fated AN-32 aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh on June 12, is still stranded. Ration among other essentials has been provided to the rescue team that was airdropped on June 12 near the wreckage site of AN-32 aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh, an official said.
The 12-member rescue team, airdropped near the wreckage site of the ill-fated AN-32 aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh on June 12, is still stranded. Ration among other essentials has been provided to the rescue team that was airdropped on June 12 near the wreckage site of AN-32 aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh, an official said.The hostile weather conditions in the terrain are not allowing the airlift operations to go underway.We are in communication with them and trying to recover them as soon as possible, Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh, Defence PRO Shillong said.The rescue team has been stranded for past 18 days at an altitude of approximately 12,000 feet where it was given the task of recovering the bodies of 13 people who were on board the AN-32 aircraft which crashed in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh earlier in June.Nine Indian Air Force () personnel, civilian mountaineer Taka Tamut and two of his associates deputed by the Shi Yomi district administration to guide a foot trek in case the weather continued to mar the chopper service remained stranded in the area, Siang district administration officials said.Until now, the rescuers were surviving the hostile weather conditions by feeding on ration commodities airdropped to them on June 12, when they arrived at the crash site, officials added.
