The Pawan Hans helicopter that disappeared in Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others Saturday morning was not identified until Sunday evening.
Research by the great Army, Air Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Royal Bhutan Army has produced no results.
Two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets from the base of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, a map of the possible location of the helicopter.
Satellite images taken by the Space Research Organization in India could create something, because the thick cloud layers, according to information received by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh.
The government said permission was obtained from Bhutan to conduct aerial searches of the area. According to official sources, the radio signal was observed, but had yet to be analyzed to see if it is a transponder from a helicopter, which disappeared 20 minutes after takeoff from Tawang at 09:56
Twenty-five teams from the Army and ITBP and SSB staff of 300 and hundreds of villagers marched through the rugged terrain of the border in Tawang, East Kameng and West Kameng districts to find the helicopter . The Government also requested assistance from the National Disaster Response Force.
air search
Ranjeeb Sahoo, spokesman for the FIA, Headquarters Air Command in Shillong, told The Hindu that the weather has hampered the aerial search, which resumed for a second day at 6 pm on Sunday. Out of two Mi-17 (one of Guwahati and Tawang others) and two helicopters were planned Cheetah Tezpur. However, the Mi-17 Tawang returned to base after two outings, while the Mi-17 in Guwahati could not fly all production due to inclement weather.
Both Cheetah helicopter made two trips each, but operations were halted after the level of visibility has decreased in the afternoon.
air search will resume at 5 pm on Monday, he said.
Coordination with Bhutan
Union Ministers Mukul Wasnik and V. Narayanasamy, delegated by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to oversee search operations, arrived in Itanagar.
They met with the management crisis unit, headed by a Cabinet, and ministers and officials.
Mr. Narayanasamy said Itanagar all measures to locate the helicopter and rescue Mr. Khandu and others were initiated by the Ministries of Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs, in coordination with the State Government and Bhutan. However, bad weather hampered operations.
On Saturday, early reports said the helicopter had landed in Bhutan.
However, denied the Bhutanese authorities, either from observation or a helicopter Indian trail on their territory, while the Government of Arunachal Pradesh said no contact has been established with a person on board the Helicopter
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