A team of scuba divers has stumbled upon the wreckage of a single-seater aircraft that sank in the 1960s off the Neelankarai coast in south Chennai.
Residents of the fishing hamlet recalled that they had rescued the pilot, who was pulled out by two men who caught his long tresses on that day.
“I was just 10 years old then and my father showed me the aircraft as we were returning home after fishing. I saw it from a distance and saw it sink into the water,” said Devadas Ganapathi, who is now 65. His son Chandru was one of the four divers who found the wreckage. The others were S.S.B. Aravind Tharunsri, master instructor, Professional Association of Diving Instructors in Australia, who led the diving expedition, and Thimoth and Arun.
