Sri Lankan Navy said
on Friday that it had found the wreck of a passenger aircraft shot
down by the LTTE
14 years ago.
“On the request
of the Terrorist
Investigation Division (TID), Navy surveyed the sea bed off the Iranativu
island in the
northern
sea and located some wreckages of a plane,” said Navy spokesman Kosala
Warnakulasuriya.
An AN-24 Russian-built passenger aircraft,
operated by privately-owned Lion Air, was believed to have
been shot down by the LTTE on September 29, 1998.
It took off
from the military
airport at Palaly in the northern Jaffna peninsula with 48 passengers,
six crew members and two Ukrainian pilots heading for Jaffna. The plane
went off the radar
10 minutes into
take-off. All on board were killed in the crash.
LTTE shot down a
series of Sri Lankan Air Force and civilian aircraft between 1995 and 1998
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