New Delhi - India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was overseeing an aerial search of the Bay of Bengal on July 23 for an air force transport plane that disappeared with 29 people aboard.
sixteen ships, a submarine and six planes are involved in the search for the plane that disappeared while on a routine re-supply fight from Chennai to remote islands in the Bay of Bengal on July 22.
Military officials said the weather had been rough in the Bay of Bengal because of the monsoon season. - AFP