The bodies of two naval officers missing since Tuesday night when a Dornier aircraft crashed off the Goa coast have been recovered. Three people were on the plane when it went down. Commander Nikhil Kuldip Joshi, who was the pilot of the aircraft, was rescued by fishermen and is in hospital.
Last night, the body of Lt. Kiran Shekhawat, 27, was found in the fuselage of the crashed aircraft. She is the first woman officer in India to die in the line of duty. Lieutenant Shikhawat joined the Navy in 2010.
She was training to be an Observer - an officer in charge of all sensors on board a surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. Lt. Shekhawat, who was married to a navy officer, was part of the contingent of women in the navy who marched in the Republic Day parade this year.
12 ships with naval divers and four aircraft were used to search for the wreckage of the plane which crashed during a routine sortie.
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