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"On the Sunday of August 12, 1964, the Sea Hawk was taken out without permission by Naval Aircraft Ordnance mechanic A S Gill. “Though the plane sank, he was found floating near it,” says Pasricha, adding that Gill was sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment and later left for Canada. On Sunday, Chandru, a fisherman-turned-scuba diver, discovered what appears to be the same aircraft 40ft underwater. The pilot landed in the sea and was rescued by fishermen," says Hari, who confirmed, on seeing videos of the wreckage, that from certain angles it looked like the "cockpit of a Sea Hawk". ‘Unconscious pilot was floating near aircraft’For years, Chandru Devadass had been hearing the tale of how in 1964, his grandfather, a fisherman, rescued the pilot of an aircraft that had crashed into the waters near his village on East Coast Road in Chennai..