Itanagar, June 11 (TIWN) The Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Tuesday that it had spotted the wreckage of the AN-32 aircraft which went missing with 13 people onboard in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3.

The AN-32—one of the most used transport aircraft by the IAF, particularly in high altitudes — took off at 12.27 pm and was supposed to land at Mechuka advance landing ground, a remote town in West Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, in about 45 minutes. The aircraft, however, lost control with the ground agencies at 1 pm, prompting the IAF to launch a search operation to locate it.  “We have received some ground report about a possible location of a crash site,” Wing Commander, Ratnakar Singh, the IAF spokesperson posted in its eastern command headquarters at Shillong, Meghalaya, told DH around 7.30 pm.