The search operation of the training aircraft that went missing after taking-off from Jamshedpur on Tuesday afternoon led to recovery of a pair of shoes and the oil slick, disclosed Mr Avinash Kumar, Public Relation Department Officer, Saraikela.

The shoes and oil slick of the trainer aircraft were recovered by the search operators from among the Chandil dam. The search operation continued for the two missing pilots- Captain J.S. Anand (40) and S. Dutta (22) and the aircraft, informed Avinash Kumar.

Ananya Mittal, the Deputy Commissioner of East Singhbhum, who had earlier indicated that the aircraft had been last located near Nimdih in Seraikela-Kharsawan district was not available for comment.

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Inquiry revealed that a training aircraft went missing on Tuesday after taking off from Jamshedpur.

Soon after the training aircraft went missing after taking-off from Jamshedpur, search operation was launched.

The aircraft, with two persons on board, had taken -off from aerodrome in Jamshedpur district around 11 am.

The development comes mere days after a trainer aircraft crashed at a Madhya Pradesh airstrip and left two pilots injured.

A search operation launched in parts of West Bengal and Jharkhand on Tuesday afternoon after the carrier went missing, continued till 10 am on Wednesday.

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The plane had taken off around 11 am from the Sonari airport in Jamshedpur. The airport (located within the city premises) incidentally provides commercial flights to  Kolkata and Bhubaneswar via a new low-cost regional airline called IndiaOne Air.

The aircraft is owned by Alchemist Aviation. The two-seater training carrier is believed to have gone off the radar mere minutes into the flight.