Tragedy Over Jharkhand: Search Continues for Missing Cessna 152

The bodies of a trainee pilot and his instructor were found in Chandil dam after their Cessna 152 aircraft went missing post-takeoff from Jharkhand's Jamshedpur. The aircraft itself remains untraced, with search operations to continue. The DGCA has initiated an investigation into the incident.

The bodies of a trainee pilot and his instructor, who were on board the two-seater aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand's Jamshedpur, were found in the Chandil dam on Thursday, officials said.

The trainer aircraft, a Cessna 152 belonging to a private aviation company, however, could not be traced during the day and the search operation would continue on Friday.

While the body of trainee pilot Shubhrodeep Dutta, a resident of Adityapur near here, was found in the morning, that of pilot-in-command Captain Jeet Satru Anand who hailed from Patna, was located later.

(With inputs from agencies.)