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Dornier crash: Body of one woman Navy Officer recovered

| | Mar 27, 2015, at 05:08 pm
Panaji, Mar 27 (IBNS): The body of one woman Navy Officer, identified as Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat, was on Thursday evening recovered from the wreckage of the Navy Dornier aircraft that crashed in the sea near Goa on Tuesday.

The debris of a Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft was found on Thursday morning using under water SONAR system.

However, one onboard naval officer is still missing.

Reports said INS Makar, a naval hydrographic vessel, had detected a large metallic object likely to be the fuselage of the ill- fated Navy Dornier.

The aircraft, which was on a routine training sortie crashed, on Tuesday  with three officers onboard.

The aircrew onboard the aircraft comprised three officers-two pilots and one woman observer. One pilot was rescued.

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