'Decommissioned' INS Khukri reaches Diu, will be up for public viewing soon

 INS Khukri, the first indigenously built missile corvette that was decommissioned after 32 years of service in December last year, reached Diu on Sunday.

INS Khukri, the first indigenously built missile corvette that was decommissioned after 32 years of service in December last year, reached Diu on Sunday. Collector, Diu, Saloni Rai told ANI, “INS Khukri, first indigenously built missile corvette that was decommissioned after 32 years of service in December 2021, reached Diu. Diu administration will get it formally on January 26 and will be available for public viewing.”

INS Khukri, the first of the indigenously built Missile Corvettes, was decommissioned after 32 years of glorious service on December 23, 2021. The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on August 23, 1989 and had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets. The ship was commissioned in Mumbai by Krishna Chandra Pant, the then Defence Minister and Sudha Mulla, wife of late Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, MVC with Commander (now Vice Admiral Retired) Sanjeev Bhasin as her first Commanding Officer.

Eight dead, 26 missing as scuba dive boat sinks in flames off California

Five Conception crew members were awake and jumped into the water when flames burst out around 3:15 am

International News: Eight people were dead and more than two dozen missing and feared deceased Monday after a scuba diving boat caught fire and sank off the California coast, with passengers trapped below deck by the roaring blaze.

Fire crews in helicopters, small boats and a Coast Guard cutter battled the fierce pre-dawn fire on the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception, which had been on a diving excursion around Santa Cruz Island, just west of Santa Barbara in southern California.

But the blaze and intense heat prevented them from breaching the vessel’s hull to search for survivors before the craft sank, the Coast Guard said. A dense fog further complicated rescue efforts. “Four victims have been recovered thus far as deceased,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference.

“Rescue and recovery efforts on the scene have located an additional four victims on the ocean floor in close proximity to the vessel,” Brown said, while 26 people are missing. Five Conception crew members were awake and jumped into the water when flames burst out around 3:15 am (1015 GMT), Coast Guard Captain Monica Rochester said, putting the total number of people aboard the boat at 39…

Lion Air crash: Indonesia directs inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes

Indonesia has directed all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft belonging to commercial airlines in the country to undergo an inspection in the wake of the tragedy involving Lion Air flight 610 that killed all 189 people on board.

Captain Avirianto, an Indonesian Transportation Ministry official, told CNN that Lion Air is currently in possession of 11 of one of Boeing’s most advanced airplanes. National airline Garuda Indonesia has one Boeing 737 Max 8 aricraft.

“We have inspected Garuda last night while Lion is still in progress,” Avirianto stated. He further said that the three of Lion Air‘s airplanes will undergo inspection by the end of Tuesday, while the other eight will be inspected soon.

Daniel Putut Adi Kuncoro, the managing director of Lion Air group, also confirmed the ongoing inspection of the aircraft in their fleet, saying, “We are waiting for their results. We will follow what the regulator tells us to do.”

Meanwhile, drones and sonar technology has been deployed the Java Sea to search for the remains of the downed plane which| BS |crashed on Monday, with the aircraft’s fuselage and flight data recorder yet to be retrieved. The search operations were spread over a 400 nautical mile area on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that 24 body bags have been transferred from the crash site for post-mortem evaluations, adding that DNA samples from as many as 132 family members of the passengers of the ill-fated flight have been taken to verify identities.

According to the region’s national search and rescue agency Basarnas, the aircraft disappeared from radar just 13 minutes after takeoff. The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

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