All on missing AN-32 presumed dead: Indian Air Force

There were 29 people on the transport plane which had vanished over the sea after it took off from Chennai for Port Blair on July 22. 

“The Court of Inquiry, upon very careful scrutiny of the circumstantial evidence available and in light of extensive search and rescue operations carried out, has concluded that it is unlikely that the missing personnel on board the ill-fated aircraft would have survived the accident. “It is with a feeling of profound sadness that the Court of Inquiry has recommended that your son/daughter be presumed to have been fatally injured,” read the letter dated August 24, 2016 from the Indian Air Force to the families of those in the aircraft. 

IAF sources said the families have been given the information so that they can go ahead with insurance and other administrative formalities.