New Delhi, June 13 (TIWN) The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday said all the 13 occupants of An-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3 were dead.

There are no survivors from the An-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh early last week, the Indian Air Force announced on Thursday.  “Eight members of the rescue team have reached the crash site today [Thursday] morning. IAF is sad to inform that there are no survivors from the crash of An-32,” IAF said in a tweet.  The 13 personnel on board have been identified as Wing Commander G.M. Charles, Squadron Leader H. Vinod, Flight Lieutenants R. Thapa, A. Tanwar, S. Mohanty and M.K. Garg, Warrant Officer K.K. Mishra, Sgt. Anoop Kumar, Cpl. Sherin, Leading Aircraftmen S.K. Singh and Pankaj, and Non Combatant Enrolled Putali and Rajesh Kumar.  The families of the personnel had been informed, officials said.   The wreckage of the aircraft was spotted on Tuesday 16 km north of Lipo, north east of Tato, at an approximate elevation of 12,000 ft by an IAF Mi-17 helicopter undertaking a search at the expanded zone.  The An-32 with 13 personnel took off from Jorhat in Assam at 1227 hrs on June 3 for Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground in Arunachal Pradesh but lost contact around 1300 hrs.