CHENNAI, India, July 26 (UPI) -- Indian air force teams, searching for a missing military transport plane, are scrambling to determine if four to five pings heard on the ocean floor are from an emergency beacon on the Russian-made aircraft that vanished with 29 people aboard.
Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar told India's upper house of parliament that the government is using all of its resources to search for the aircraft, which departed from Tambaram, a suburb of Chennai, at 8:30 a.m. Friday for a three-hour flight to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.