The search for the missing Coast Guard Dornier aircraft and its three member crew continued for the seventh consecutive day on Monday with the involvement of multiple government agencies, even as an NIOT research vessel began work to profile sea-bed to zero in on the location of the disappeared plane.
"#ICGDornier Research vessel 'Sagarnidhi' has started sub-surface search and seabed profiling 4 ascertaining the position of missing aircraft," Spokesperson, Ministry of Defence, Sitanshu Kar tweeted.
"Sagar Nidhi" an NIOT research vessel arrived (at the area of search off <g data-gr-id="19">Cuddalore-<g data-gr-id="17">Karraikal</g></g> coastline in Tamil Nadu) by 10 AM on Monday," Coast Guard said in a statement. It was diverted from a remote location off Bay of Bengal where it was engaged in fixing Tsunami buoys after a request from the Coast Guard, an NIOT official said.
<g data-gr-id="15">"Feeble,sporadic</g> signals received are being reconfirmed by probe equipment of National Institute of Oceanography (NIOT) (which) embarked onboard ICG Ship," the CG statement said.
Also, operations by submarine INS Sindhudhvaj continued for detection of acoustic signal from the Sonar Locator Beacon (SLB) of the missing aircraft, it said.