New Delhi:
One of the key things that helped locate the CM's aircraft was SMS received at 12.06 pm on Wednesday.
1 pm on Wednesday: Air headquarters informed.
1.30 pm: Two Chetaks from Hakimpet and one MI-8 from Yalahanka base pressed into action.
3.30 pm: Advance light launched from Yalahanka base. (All helicopter were in a ambulance configuration)
4.30 pm: Dornier to locate ELT launched from Yalahanka. Route Yalahenka-Cuddapah-Srisaileem-Chittur- Yalahanka.
5.10 pm: Avro launched. Route Hyderabad-Kunoor.Search based on eyewitness and civil inputs.
6:30 pm: Lost aircraft procedure announced, Indian Air Force (IAF) decides to go on its own.
6:45 pm: Decision to press Sukhoi SU-30 for search operation.
8:10 pm: Two Sukhoi Su-30 pressed into action.
8:40 pm: IL-78 for air refueling launched. Mid air refueling by 11.30 pm.
2 am on Thursday: 3rd Su-30 pressed into action. IL-78 for ariel refueling launched.
By this time crisis committee group and IAF had used the flight path and the phone triangulation to zero down to 4 sq km area instead of 225 sq km.
6:30 am: Chetak pressed into action again from Kanoor.
8:30 am: Chetak spots. First spotting of chopper.
9:20 am: MI-8 presses commandos into action.
10:45 am: All bodies found.
One of the key things that helped locate the CM's aircraft was SMS received at 12.06 pm on Wednesday.
1 pm on Wednesday: Air headquarters informed.
1.30 pm: Two Chetaks from Hakimpet and one MI-8 from Yalahanka base pressed into action.
3.30 pm: Advance light launched from Yalahanka base. (All helicopter were in a ambulance configuration)
4.30 pm: Dornier to locate ELT launched from Yalahanka. Route Yalahenka-Cuddapah-Srisaileem-Chittur- Yalahanka.
5.10 pm: Avro launched. Route Hyderabad-Kunoor.Search based on eyewitness and civil inputs.
6:30 pm: Lost aircraft procedure announced, Indian Air Force (IAF) decides to go on its own.
6:45 pm: Decision to press Sukhoi SU-30 for search operation.
8:10 pm: Two Sukhoi Su-30 pressed into action.
8:40 pm: IL-78 for air refueling launched. Mid air refueling by 11.30 pm.
2 am on Thursday: 3rd Su-30 pressed into action. IL-78 for ariel refueling launched.
By this time crisis committee group and IAF had used the flight path and the phone triangulation to zero down to 4 sq km area instead of 225 sq km.
6:30 am: Chetak pressed into action again from Kanoor.
8:30 am: Chetak spots. First spotting of chopper.
9:20 am: MI-8 presses commandos into action.
10:45 am: All bodies found.
