Search operations are continuing in Chandil Dam for the sixth day on Sunday to trace the trainer aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur on August 20, officials said. Teams of the navy and the NDRF are engaged in the operations at Seraikela-Kharswan district to locate the two-seater aircraft – Cessna-152, they said.

“Search is still underway in the dam,” Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Chandil) Subhra Rani said. Bodies of the trainee pilot and his instructor, who were on board, were found in the dam on Thursday. The officials said the bodies of trainee pilot Shubhrodeep Dutta and pilot-in-command Captain Jeet Satru Anand were handed over to their families.