The body of the trainee pilot who was on board the two-seater aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand's Jamshedpur was found i♑n the Chandil dam on Thursday, officials said.
The trainer aircraft, a Cessna 152 owned by a private flying school, went missing after t🔜aking off from the Sonari aerodrome on Tuesday morning, following which a mega search operation was launched in the nearby areas, including the reservoir of the dam, to locate it, they said.
As the search continued in the൲ reservoir, where it was suspecte🦂d to have crashed, a body was found floating this morning, they said.
It was later identified as that of traine🔯e pilot Subhrodeep Dutta, a resident of Adityapur in the Seraikela-Kharsawan district, they added.
Meanwhile, a team of the Indian Navy joined the search for t൩he aircraft and pilot Captain Jeet Satru, 35ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, a native of Patna.
The 19-me🍒mber team of the Navy was brought in frꦍom Visakhapatnam, officials said.
On Wednesd𓃲ay, a six-member team of NDRF searched the reservoir of the dam for hours.
The reservoir was being searched after villagers claimed the aircraft crashed into it, Superintendent of Police (Seraikela-Kharsawan) Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said.
East Singhbhum's Deputy Commissi𓆉oner Ananya Mittal said the last location of the aircraft was near Nimℱdih in Chandil sub-division as per the Air Traffic Control.
