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Navy Dornier crash: Second body, data recorder recovered from wreckage

Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
Mar 28, 2015 12:12 AM IST

Naval divers on Friday recovered the body of Lieutenant Abhinav Nagori from the wreckage of a Dornier surveillance plane, three days after it crashed into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Goa.

Naval divers on Friday recovered the body of Lieutenant Abhinav Nagori from the wreckage of a Dornier surveillance plane, three days after it crashed into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Goa.

The co-pilot’s body was found in the plane’s fuselage lying on the seabed at a depth of 50 metres. The black box was also recovered, ending a 60-hour search operation.

On Thursday, divers had recovered the body of , an observer, from the wreckage.

Shekhawat is the first female officer to have been killed in a naval crash. The navy’s hydrographic vessel, the INS Makar, detected the Dornier’s 16-metre long fuselage using its side scan sonar on Thursday.

The navy is now firming up plans to retrieve the wreckage, a source said.

The pilot, Commander Nikhil Kuldip Joshi - a seasoned hand with over 4,000 flying hours - miraculously survived the crash and was picked up by a fishing boat. This is the first Dornier to crash since the planes were inducted in the navy in the early 1990s.

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