The story from this end. What is not mentioned in this story as it is an Indian account is that this engagement was part of the second raid at Kalaikunda after the first had blown up 7 Canberras.
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To complete the destruction of Kalaikunda, a second raid was ordered at 10:30 a.m. This time Flight Lieutenant Haleem led a formation of four Sabres. Visibility was still very bad when they reached the target but now the enemy was prepared. A barrage of anti-aircraft fire greeted them and nine Hunters pounced on them. The Sabres split in two pairs. One continued the attack while the others turned to engage the Hunters. Flight Lieutenant Tariq Habib, leading the second pair asked his No 2 Flying Officer Afzal Khan to jettison his fuel tanks to prepare for battle but he was shot down before he could do so. Flight Lieutenant Tariq Habib in the meantime jettisoned three of his tanks, but the fourth hung up and with this handicap he was cornered by 3 Hunters for a good ten minutes. With remarkable coolness and presence of mind, he twisted and turned at low level and though his aircraft got badly damaged, he managed to shake them off and returned safely to Dhaka. For his courage and skill in fighting his way clear of the larger and better equipped enemy force, Tariq Habib was awarded a well-deserved Sitara-e-Jurat. His Squadron Commander, Squadron Leader Shabbir Hussain Syed was also decorated with Sitara-e-Jurat for his outstanding leadership. No 14 Squadron earned the nickname of Tail Choppers, alluding to the swath of bullets they used at Kalaikunda to cut through the tails of IAF-s neatly lined up Canberras. In West Pakistan, PAF had cut off the head of the Indian Air Force, and in their two sorties on 7 September, the pilots of No 14 Squadron did an equally good job with the tail.
In its second raid, No 14 Squadron claimed 4 to 6 Canberras destroyed but lost one pilot and one Sabre. Flight Lieutenant Tariq Habib-s aircraft also could not be recovered for want of spares. The squadron strength was now reduced to 8 but not their zeal to attack the enemy. It was only bad weather and some political considerations that brought a lull in their operations."
However, the 9 Hunters are simply a fog of war that might have been made up by the flight lead in battle or to simply save off his inability to shake the superior piloting skills of cooke.
What does remain however, is that a force of 8 aircraft managed to destroy some 9 Canberra's on the ground for the loss of one using just their guns. Pretty darn good exchange considering they were up against a superior force both numerically and technologically.
pardes bari buri cheez hai ustaad 
Yeah that is why 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered and in Longewala your army got thrashed, IAF ran sorties over Dhaka, PAF initial attack on Indian bases failed. So you saying IA won without air superiority? Damn then PA was so incompetent I guess. 
