IAF AN-32 aircraft with thirteen military personnel on board that crashed on 13 June in Arunachal Pradesh have died , IAF says after first recce team reached the crash area. Airforce an Army helicopters on Wednesday had dropped 15 Mountaineers for rescue operation on Wednesday evening. the air force said in a string of tweets to “pay tribute to the brave air-warriors who lost their life” in the crash. The AN-32 was on its way to an advanced landing ground at Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district – about 15 km from the Line of Actual Control, the disputed border with China – when it lost contact with ground control in about 30 minutes after taking off from Jorhat in Assam.