The wreckage of the AN-32 transport aircraft was found eight days after it went missing on June 3 in Arunachal Pradesh. The IAF twitter handle announced the demise of all 13. It even tweeted the names of those dead.
The wreckage was spotted 16 km north of Lipo, north-east of Tato, at an elevation of 12,000 feet, the IAF had said. The AN-32 went missing after taking off from Jorhat in Assam on way to Mechuka advanced landing ground in Arunachal Pradesh.
The crash site indicates that the plane was on the flight path towards Mechuka. The wreckage was located some 12-kms north of the last habitation in Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.