India has allocated a financial reward to support efforts to search for a military transport aircraft that it has been carrying for about a week and is feared to have crashed in a remote state in the northeast of the country..
The Indian Air Force and the Arunachal Pradesh state government announced a financial reward of 550,000 Indian rupees worth $ 8,000 to encourage village elders to organize searches for the missing plane that disappeared last Monday from radar screens with 13 people aboard..
The Antonov (AN-32), a Soviet-made aircraft near the border with China, was lost, and aerial or satellite searches failed to detect any signal from it.
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