<p>The search for a missing Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft and its three-member crew continued for the seventh day on Monday with no concrete information so far about its location, an official said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a statement here on Monday, the Coast Guard said intense search for the missing aircraft continued for the seventh consecutive day.<br /><br />"The submarine operations continued for detection of acoustic signal from the sonar locator beacon of the missing aircraft. Feeble/sporadic signals received are being reconfirmed by probe equipment of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) deployed aboard an ICG (Indian Coast Guard) ship," it said.<br /><br />According to the Coast Guard, research vessel 'Sagarnidhi' arrived in the area at 10 a.m. on Monday and was undertaking sub-surface search and seabed profiling for ascertaining the position of the missing aircraft.<br /><br />The aircraft manufacturer was also being roped in to help ascertain the reason(s) for its disappearance, a Coast Guard official has told IANS.<br /><br />The Dornier aircraft took off from Chennai airport around 6 p.m. on June 8 for a surveillance sortie but was reported missing on its way back.<br /><br />The last contact with the aircraft was at 9 p.m. on last Monday. Its last known location, as per Trichy radar, was off Karaikal in Puducherry where it was tracked till 9.23 p.m., 95 nautical miles south of Chennai.<br /><br />In March, a Dornier-228 of the Indian Navy with three crew went down in the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast, killing two personnel.<br /><br />"We are conducting studies on the probable cause for the aircraft's disappearance," the official said.<br /><br />"Unless we get its flight data recorder or get to see the missing aircraft's fuselage, we cannot say anything," he said. He also said that tests on multi-colour oil sheen found in the sea turned out to be negative.<br /><br />The Coast Guard requested Reliance India Ltd to extend the services of a multi-support vessel with remote-operated underwater vehicle for underwater search.<br /><br />The missing Dornier has on board Deputy Commandant Vidyasagar as pilot, his co-pilot and Deputy Commandant Subash Suresh and navigator/observer M.K. Soni -- all in their 30s.<br /></p>
<p>The search for a missing Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft and its three-member crew continued for the seventh day on Monday with no concrete information so far about its location, an official said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a statement here on Monday, the Coast Guard said intense search for the missing aircraft continued for the seventh consecutive day.<br /><br />"The submarine operations continued for detection of acoustic signal from the sonar locator beacon of the missing aircraft. Feeble/sporadic signals received are being reconfirmed by probe equipment of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) deployed aboard an ICG (Indian Coast Guard) ship," it said.<br /><br />According to the Coast Guard, research vessel 'Sagarnidhi' arrived in the area at 10 a.m. on Monday and was undertaking sub-surface search and seabed profiling for ascertaining the position of the missing aircraft.<br /><br />The aircraft manufacturer was also being roped in to help ascertain the reason(s) for its disappearance, a Coast Guard official has told IANS.<br /><br />The Dornier aircraft took off from Chennai airport around 6 p.m. on June 8 for a surveillance sortie but was reported missing on its way back.<br /><br />The last contact with the aircraft was at 9 p.m. on last Monday. Its last known location, as per Trichy radar, was off Karaikal in Puducherry where it was tracked till 9.23 p.m., 95 nautical miles south of Chennai.<br /><br />In March, a Dornier-228 of the Indian Navy with three crew went down in the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast, killing two personnel.<br /><br />"We are conducting studies on the probable cause for the aircraft's disappearance," the official said.<br /><br />"Unless we get its flight data recorder or get to see the missing aircraft's fuselage, we cannot say anything," he said. He also said that tests on multi-colour oil sheen found in the sea turned out to be negative.<br /><br />The Coast Guard requested Reliance India Ltd to extend the services of a multi-support vessel with remote-operated underwater vehicle for underwater search.<br /><br />The missing Dornier has on board Deputy Commandant Vidyasagar as pilot, his co-pilot and Deputy Commandant Subash Suresh and navigator/observer M.K. Soni -- all in their 30s.<br /></p>