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The OP needs to know Atlantic incident happened right after Kargil war(in which one Indian fighter and a heli was shot down by Pakistani forces perched in Kargil heights).
Besides Pakistani Navy Atlantique was given a chance to land Indian airbase ..instead it tried to make a run to the border..it was only then was it shot down.
Do you think if Indian heli which was Pakistani airspace tried to make a run for India airspace ..it would not have been shot down??
I wish you were right but the PN plane was shot down as a revenge for the two INAF planes that Pak air defence shot down. There was no plan to take prisoners.
so they were already waiting for an opportunity and they found PN plane that couldn’t defend itself and shot it down. Pakistan should have known better.
I wont criticise India, it was war time and they seized the chance and scored a very big kill. Bringing in morality and fairness in all this is waste of engery.
During the Afghan occupation, when PAF started to shoot down Afghan & Soviet planes then they threatened with shooting down any Passenger and transport plane they could as a revenge and the PAF paid the heed and started to escort all passenger and transport flights including the commercial ones that flew on the Western side of Pakistan and no such thing happened.
When the news broke out of two Indian Air force jets being shot down I was sure that Indians will retaliate and wont spare any chance be it transport, or recon or a passenger plane and use the heat of the moment to justify their kill and so they did. A propeller plane vs a jet interceptor was no match whether it was within Pakistani space or dangerously near the border. What chance do you think the Atlantic pilot flying a propeller plan would have had to evade a jet fighter? A fast interceptor was used that scored the kill and PN paid a heavy price for not having any air or ground defence to prevent that loss.
Helicopter episode a great opportunity for India, Pakistan
B Raman
The handling of the October 23 incident involving an Indian Army helicopter straying into Pakistan air space should be used as a starting point for setting up a more substantial military-military relationship between the armies of the two countries as a distrust-reducing measure, writes B Raman
On October 23, 2011, an Indian military helicopter with four military personnel on board strayed into the Pakistani air space in the Skardu region of Gilgit-Baltistan due to bad weather.
According to official accounts of the Pakistani Army, the occupants of the helicopter consisted of one Lt Col, two Majors and a junior commissioned officer. On detecting the crossing of the helicopter into Pakistani air space, planes of the Pakistani Air Force took off and made it land in the Skardu area.
After questioning the occupants of the copter regarding the circumstances under which it crossed over into Pakistani air space, they were allowed to take off and return to the Kargil area of India the same day within a few hours.
According to official accounts emanating from New Delhi, the armies of the two countries sorted out the incident in a professional and cordial manner by using the hotline that exists between the Directors-General of Military Operations of the two countries.
Even though the incident was unintentional, the Pakistan Army could have played it up as having a sinister motive and detained the copter and its occupants ostensibly for long interrogation.
At a time when the Pakistani Army is under tremendous pressure from the US to mount operations against the sanctuaries of the Haqqani network, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, its Chief of the Army Staff (COAS ), could have exploited the incident to mount a PSYWAR against India in order to project as if Pakistan continued to face a military threat from India.
The Pakistan Army resisted that temptation, treated the incident in the low-key in which it deserved to be treated, consciously avoided dramatising it and let the chopper and its occupants fly back to India within a few hours
This speaks highly of Gen Kayani as a military professional.
His positive and cool reflexes as reflected during the incident need to be noted, acknowledged and hailed by India.
The way the Pakistani military and political leadership resisted the temptation to exploit the incident for ulterior purposes needs to be highlighted and praised.
We do not hesitate to criticise what we see as the negative traits and reflexes of the Pakistan Army in matters relating to India.
In equal measure, we should not hesitate to highlight and hail the positive traits and reflexes of the Pakistani military leadership. The manner in which the Pakistani military leadership handled the incident is worthy of high praise.
One is reminded that during the crisis in Indo-Pakistan relations after the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001, Gen Kayani was the Director-General of Military Operations in Rawalpindi.
It was reported that the US was highly impressed by the cool manner in which he handled the crisis. He has shown a similar cool temperament this Sunday.
Should the good vibrations generated by the Pakistani gesture remain an isolated act without follow-up? I don't think so.
This should be used as a starting point for setting up a more substantial military-military relationship between the armies of the two countries as a distrust-reducing measure. This is the time for us to consider inviting Gen Kayani to visit India.
One should note too the commendable restraint shown by the media of the two countries in reporting on the incident. This augurs well for the future.
Good Initiative............... We need friendship
I wish you were right but the PN plane was shot down as a revenge for the two INAF planes that Pak air defence shot down. There was no plan to take prisoners.
so they were already waiting for an opportunity and they found PN plane that couldn’t defend itself and shot it down. Pakistan should have known better.
I wont criticise India, it was war time and they seized the chance and scored a very big kill. Bringing in morality and fairness in all this is waste of engery.
During the Afghan occupation, when PAF started to shoot down Afghan & Soviet planes then they threatened with shooting down any Passenger and transport plane they could as a revenge and the PAF paid the heed and started to escort all passenger and transport flights including the commercial ones that flew on the Western side of Pakistan and no such thing happened.
When the news broke out of two Indian Air force jets being shot down I was sure that Indians will retaliate and wont spare any chance be it transport, or recon or a passenger plane and use the heat of the moment to justify their kill and so they did. A propeller plane vs a jet interceptor was no match whether it was within Pakistani space or dangerously near the border. What chance do you think the Atlantic pilot flying a propeller plan would have had to evade a jet fighter? A fast interceptor was used that scored the kill and PN paid a heavy price for not having any air or ground defence to prevent that loss.
I hope all the wishy washy peaceniks on our side learned their lesson, the indian state is, and always will be our enemy, they cannot be trusted. I am proud of our forces professionalism, from tracking the helicopter from within IOK - to our fighter pilots intercepting the heli within a few kilometers of the LOC. To our officers conducting the interrogations.
Pakistan Zindabad.
Two wrongs dont make things right.... But saying My wrong was right and your wrong was wrong doesn't make any sense either....
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Khalid Mehmood.... His body was received on the day we let your kashmir singh go....3 hours after kashmir singh release.....
I wish you were right but the PN plane was shot down as a revenge for the two INAF planes that Pak air defence shot down. There was no plan to take prisoners.
so they were already waiting for an opportunity and they found PN plane that couldn’t defend itself and shot it down. Pakistan should have known better.
I wont criticise India, it was war time and they seized the chance and scored a very big kill. Bringing in morality and fairness in all this is waste of engery.
During the Afghan occupation, when PAF started to shoot down Afghan & Soviet planes then they threatened with shooting down any Passenger and transport plane they could as a revenge and the PAF paid the heed and started to escort all passenger and transport flights including the commercial ones that flew on the Western side of Pakistan and no such thing happened.
When the news broke out of two Indian Air force jets being shot down I was sure that Indians will retaliate and wont spare any chance be it transport, or recon or a passenger plane and use the heat of the moment to justify their kill and so they did. A propeller plane vs a jet interceptor was no match whether it was within Pakistani space or dangerously near the border. What chance do you think the Atlantic pilot flying a propeller plan would have had to evade a jet fighter? A fast interceptor was used that scored the kill and PN paid a heavy price for not having any air or ground defence to prevent that loss.
I wish you were right but the PN plane was shot down as a revenge for the two INAF planes that Pak air defence shot down. There was no plan to take prisoners.
so they were already waiting for an opportunity and they found PN plane that couldn’t defend itself and shot it down. Pakistan should have known better.
I wont criticise India, it was war time and they seized the chance and scored a very big kill. Bringing in morality and fairness in all this is waste of engery.
During the Afghan occupation, when PAF started to shoot down Afghan & Soviet planes then they threatened with shooting down any Passenger and transport plane they could as a revenge and the PAF paid the heed and started to escort all passenger and transport flights including the commercial ones that flew on the Western side of Pakistan and no such thing happened.
When the news broke out of two Indian Air force jets being shot down I was sure that Indians will retaliate and wont spare any chance be it transport, or recon or a passenger plane and use the heat of the moment to justify their kill and so they did. A propeller plane vs a jet interceptor was no match whether it was within Pakistani space or dangerously near the border. What chance do you think the Atlantic pilot flying a propeller plan would have had to evade a jet fighter? A fast interceptor was used that scored the kill and PN paid a heavy price for not having any air or ground defence to prevent that loss.