There are no survivors from the An-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh early last week, the Indian Air Force announced on Thursday.

Bodies of all 13 Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board were retrieved  from the crash site in Arunachal Pradesh, IAF said.

The black box of the plane was also recovered by a team of mountaineers that sent to the site early this morning, it said. Helicopters would be used to ferry the bodies from the area. The team comprised eight mountaineers.

The 13 personnel on board have been identified as Wing Commander G.M. Charles, Squadron Leader H. Vinod, Flight Lieutenants R. Thapa, A. Tanwar, S. Mohanty and M.K. Garg, Warrant Officer K.K. Mishra, Sgt. Anoop Kumar, Cpl. Sherin, Leading Aircraftmen S.K. Singh and Pankaj, and Non-Combatant Enrolled Putali and Rajesh Kumar.

The aircraft went missing on June 3 after taking off from Assam `s Jorhat. It was headed towards Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground in Arunachal Pradesh when it lost contact with ground authorities at around 1300 hours.

The wreckage of the aircraft was spotted on Tuesday 16 km north of Lipo, northeast of Tato, at an approximate elevation of 12,000 ft by an IAF Mi-17 helicopter undertaking a search at the expanded zone.

On Wednesday, Air Force sources had said that the view of the pilots could have been obscured by clouds causing the crash. 

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