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Missing An-32 Aircraft
June 11 , 2019
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- On June 3, an AN-32 transport aircraft which departed from Jorhat, Assam towards Arunachal Pradesh with 13 Indians went missing shortly after it took off.
- The Indian Air Force and other search teams are going through pictures and data sent by Earth Observation (EO) satellites under COSPAS-SARSAT to find missing aircraft.
- It is an international satellite-based search and rescue system.
- It is used to detect and locate emergency beacons carried by ships, aircraft, or individuals using a network of
satellites
- ground stations
- mission control centres
- rescue coordination centres
- COSPAS is a Russian acronym for Space System for Search of Distress Vessels.
- SARSAT means Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking.
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