"One month on still no trace of missing #ICGDornier &its brave crew. My prayers are with the families," Rahul, who is likely to meet the distraught family soon, tweeted.
With no clue emerging about the whereabouts of the missing Coast Guard aircraft and its three personnel onboard, the father of one of the officers has written an 'open' letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying they are "dying every second" and longing to get some bit of news about these men.
The Coast Guard Dornier plane, CG-791, had taken off for a routine maritime surveillance sortie in coastal Tamil Nadu on June 8 and since then has been untraceable despite the CG and the Navy undertaking a massive search operation in the sea and the land areas.