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1968 IAF crash: Closure for India families as four bodies found 56 years after plane crash

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Thomas Cherian was among 102 passengers on board an Indian Air Force aircraft that crashed in 1968 .

The plane went off the radar while it was flying over the Rohtang pass, which links the northern state of Himachal Pradesh to Indian -administered Kashmir .

For years , the IAF AN-12 aircraft was listed as missing and its fate remained a mystery.

In 2003 , mountaineers found the body of one of the passengers.

In 2019 , the wreckage of the plane was recovered from the mountains.

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