<p>It has been three days since the Indian Air Force's AN-32 aircraft disappeared over the Bay of Bengal and as the massive search operation continues, family of a Flight Lieutenant, who was on-board, has turned to the last resort - miracle.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"She had left for Port Blair after spending a brief period of her annual leave with us," says an inconsolable Prem Lata, mother of Flight Lieutenant Deepika Sheoran.<br /><br />Sheoran is onboard the IAF's AN-32 place which left for Port Blair from Chennai on Friday with 29 people and went off radar minutes later.<br /><br />At least 18 navy and coast guard ships including a submarine, and eight aircraft like P 81, C 130 and Dorniers involved in the round the clock operation to search for the aircraft have been able to find no clue.<br /><br />"I wish for some miracle to save her and 28 other missing people," Prem Lata says. She says she last spoke to her on Thursday.<br /><br />Armed with a degree in computer engineering, Deepika Sheoran preferred to don uniform as a flight lieutenant and joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2013.<br /><br />She got Port Blair posting last month.<br /><br />Hanging on to every scrap of information about the missing aircraft, her family says Deepika was very excited to get the posting.<br /><br />Sheoran had married Kuldeep Dalal on November 22 last and her husband is posted in Port Blair as assistant commandant with the Coast Guard.<br /><br />This was the couple's first joint posting.<br /><br />The officer's father Dalip Singh Sheoran, an executive engineer with Haryana public health department, said after completing her B Tech in computer engineering from Faridabad, she got a placement in MNC at Noida.<br /><br />She was also selected for the army as a lieutenant and had completed all formalities.<br /><br />"But she had something else in mind - joining the air force," he says. "She also qualified for the technical branch of the IAF and was commissioned in January 2013 as flying officer."<br /><br />"Since her childhood she was crazy about aeroplanes. Though she could not become a pilot, she was happy to join the air force to satisfy her thrill for aircraft. She has disappeared in the same sky where she always wished to fly," Singh added.<br /><br />Deepika was the eldest among three siblings. Her younger brother Anubhav has completed an engineering degree and youngest sister has completed her class XII.<br /><br />Anubhav said her sister was the "life of their house" and used to guide him and his sister about their careers.</p>
<p>It has been three days since the Indian Air Force's AN-32 aircraft disappeared over the Bay of Bengal and as the massive search operation continues, family of a Flight Lieutenant, who was on-board, has turned to the last resort - miracle.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"She had left for Port Blair after spending a brief period of her annual leave with us," says an inconsolable Prem Lata, mother of Flight Lieutenant Deepika Sheoran.<br /><br />Sheoran is onboard the IAF's AN-32 place which left for Port Blair from Chennai on Friday with 29 people and went off radar minutes later.<br /><br />At least 18 navy and coast guard ships including a submarine, and eight aircraft like P 81, C 130 and Dorniers involved in the round the clock operation to search for the aircraft have been able to find no clue.<br /><br />"I wish for some miracle to save her and 28 other missing people," Prem Lata says. She says she last spoke to her on Thursday.<br /><br />Armed with a degree in computer engineering, Deepika Sheoran preferred to don uniform as a flight lieutenant and joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2013.<br /><br />She got Port Blair posting last month.<br /><br />Hanging on to every scrap of information about the missing aircraft, her family says Deepika was very excited to get the posting.<br /><br />Sheoran had married Kuldeep Dalal on November 22 last and her husband is posted in Port Blair as assistant commandant with the Coast Guard.<br /><br />This was the couple's first joint posting.<br /><br />The officer's father Dalip Singh Sheoran, an executive engineer with Haryana public health department, said after completing her B Tech in computer engineering from Faridabad, she got a placement in MNC at Noida.<br /><br />She was also selected for the army as a lieutenant and had completed all formalities.<br /><br />"But she had something else in mind - joining the air force," he says. "She also qualified for the technical branch of the IAF and was commissioned in January 2013 as flying officer."<br /><br />"Since her childhood she was crazy about aeroplanes. Though she could not become a pilot, she was happy to join the air force to satisfy her thrill for aircraft. She has disappeared in the same sky where she always wished to fly," Singh added.<br /><br />Deepika was the eldest among three siblings. Her younger brother Anubhav has completed an engineering degree and youngest sister has completed her class XII.<br /><br />Anubhav said her sister was the "life of their house" and used to guide him and his sister about their careers.</p>