“It’s A Suicide Mission, SAAR!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne

[Raj-Hindustani]

if target missed then why not hit the target again objective was not acheived
PAF did not respond because high civilian traffic everyday some 1600 to 1800 civilan aircrafts fly on pakistan . why not you try next day when airspace was clear to shot ? it was like ukrine or iran type airiner shot down .
where they were su30s and mirages why they did not chase PAF and keep fighting ? why they just go home ? after all PAF bombed and shot down fighter jet .

its live now any sane brain will fire SAM or AAM here ???????
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Sir ji,

if target missed then why not hit the target again objective was not acheived.

Both airforces were not targeting a country like Afghanistan. PAF and IAF, both only planned to hit and run the targets. they were not there to circle and take the risks.

PAF did not respond because high civilian traffic everyday some 1600 to 1800 civilan aircrafts fly on pakistan . why not you try next day when airspace was clear to shot ? it was like ukrine or iran type airiner shot down .

I will suggest PAF should change the radars... I still remember that during the attack on pearl harbor... The USA was able to detect the low-flying aircraft's but they thought those were birds flying because radar was incapable to make the differentiation.

I hope, PAF is not facing the same problems and if they can track the Brahmos missiles as they only claimed, they are able to differentiate between fighter aircraft and civilian planes.

where they were su30s and mirages why they did not chase PAF and keep fighting ?

PAF planes did miss hit and run, why would IAF needed to go inside Pakistan's airspace? there was not a full flesh war happening, right?

Mig 21 was chasing the fighter planes but F16 was already covering the sky inside PAK airspace with better AAA missiles with a range 110 KM.. as it was expected that IAF fighters will chaise it and it was hit by one of the F16.

It was a fight of a few mins.. no doubt that the planning and execution of PAF were much better than IAF during the day. it also, shown ground reality to IAF that they need more AWACS aircrafts, better range AAA missiles - at least 110 KM, and need to change unsecured communication systems in Mig 21 bison aircrafts.

 

[SQ8]

Bro, to be fair it’s not the pilots call to make if they’re going to fly or not. They are trained for all eventualities, they knew what they signed up for. The Mig 21 is a BVR capable machine the problem is the pilot skill. Instead of saying their pilots made the right decision like it’s smart. We should call them what they really were that day… pussies. If it’s about defence of the homeland PAF would pit f7’s against the Rafale even but if the pilots are pussies (excuse my French but it is what it is) then you could hand them Darkstar ultra pro max and they would still fail or go to the bathroom lol.

And the F-7 would more than likely get blown out of the sky. They could try different tactics but at the end it would be a suicide mission.

Aircraft takes 3 years to manufacture - a pilot takes 10 years to train to a minimum acceptable standard.

Sir ji,

if target missed then why not hit the target again objective was not acheived.

Both airforces were not targeting a country like Afghanistan. PAF and IAF, both only planned to hit and run the targets. they were not there to circle and take the risks.

PAF did not respond because high civilian traffic everyday some 1600 to 1800 civilan aircrafts fly on pakistan . why not you try next day when airspace was clear to shot ? it was like ukrine or iran type airiner shot down .

I will suggest PAF should change the radars... I still remember that during the attack on pearl harbor... The USA was able to detect the low-flying aircraft's but they thought those were birds flying because radar was incapable to make the differentiation.

I hope, PAF is not facing problems and that they can track the Brahmos missiles as they only claimed, they are able to differentiate between fighter aircraft and a civilian planes.

where they were su30s and mirages why they did not chase PAF and keep fighting ?

PAF planes did hit and run, why would IAF needed to go inside Pakistan's airspace? there was not a full flesh war happening, right?

Mig 21 was chasing the fighter planes but F16 was already covering inside PAK airspace with better AAA missiles with a range 110 KM.. and it was hit by one of the F16.

It was a fight of a few mins.. no doubt that the planning and execution of PAF were much better than IAF during the day. it also, shown ground reality to IAF that they need more AWACS aircrafts, better range AAA missiles - at least 110 KM, and need to change unsecured communication systems in Mig 21 bison aircrafts.

Making low grade comments does suit you - but it also explains your mentality and upbringing.

Detecting aircraft versus ensuring the airspace is clear of civilians(whom you don’t care about) regardless of the accuracy of missiles and whatnot is priority.

Same reason your army is happy killing civilians in Kashmir but Pakistan’s holds back on the other side as your troops use them as human shields.

 

[Mustang125]

And the F-7 would more than likely get blown out of the sky. They could try different tactics but at the end it would be a suicide mission.

Aircraft takes 3 years to manufacture - a pilot takes 10 years to train to a minimum acceptable standard.

Most probably would sir but going by the report if it is accurate, is it acceptable if pilots who have been trained for 10 years start refusing or circumventing around direct orders? Wouldn’t that be a bigger morale duster for the airforce?

 

[Imran Khan]

Sir ji,



Both airforces were not targeting a country like Afghanistan. PAF and IAF, both only planned to hit and run the targets. they were not there to circle and take the risks.

i mean to say why not next day another hour why its ended ? its means your intention was not hitting the target ?

I will suggest PAF should change the radars... I still remember that during the attack on pearl harbor... The USA was able to detect the low-flying aircraft's but they thought those were birds flying because radar was incapable to make the differentiation.

I hope, PAF is not facing the same problems and if they can track the Brahmos missiles as they only claimed, they are able to differentiate between fighter aircraft and civilian planes.

its nto WW2 era SAMs and AAM today are very long range . do you really want to hit a passenger plane in ego ? missiles did nto see border a SAM fired next to lahore can hit any plane over india too . explain to me iran and ukrine airliners shotdown please .

PAF planes did hit and run, why would IAF needed to go inside Pakistan's airspace? there was not a full flesh war happening, right?

Mig 21 was chasing the fighter planes but F16 was already covering inside PAK airspace with better AAA missiles with a range 110 KM.. and it was hit by one of the F16.

It was a fight of a few mins.. no doubt that the planning and execution of PAF were much better than IAF during the day. it also, shown ground reality to IAF that they need more AWACS aircrafts, better range AAA missiles - at least 110 KM, and need to change unsecured communication systems in Mig 21 bison aircrafts.

why it was ended ? PAF did big time humiliation to IAF why they went cool after that ? i mean it was not big event on 27 feb ? why india did nothing on 28 or next week again ?

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Making low grade comments does suit you - but it also explains your mentality and upbringing.

Detecting aircraft versus ensuring the airspace is clear of civilians(whom you don’t care about) regardless of the accuracy of missiles and whatnot is priority.

Same reason your army is happy killing civilians in Kashmir but Pakistan’s holds back on the other side as your troops use them as human shields.

Detecting aircraft versus ensuring the airspace is clear of civilians(whom you don’t care about) regardless of the accuracy of missiles and whatnot is priority.

I never questioned about SAM missiles during that day because it was out of the question....... I only questioned about PAF response timing.. it was a little late.

Same reason your army is happy killing civilians in Kashmir but Pakistan’s holds back on the other side as your troops use them as human shields.

Sir, It is just a one-sided claim.. As expected... you will trust it even without evidence. This is natural because we both trust in our army... mostly, no evidence is needed if the claim is against the enemy.

But the fact is .... civilians get killed at both sides due to both armies and firing..

 

[Horse_Rider]

if target missed then why not hit the target again objective was not acheived
PAF did not respond because high civilian traffic everyday some 1600 to 1800 civilan aircrafts fly on pakistan . why not you try next day when airspace was clear to shot ? it was like ukrine or iran type airiner shot down .
where they were su30s and mirages why they did not chase PAF and keep fighting ? why they just go home ? after all PAF bombed and shot down fighter jet .

its live now any sane brain will fire SAM or AAM here ???????
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The IAF did try a second attack. This time they transposed an airliner's signals (Indian Airline's commercial plane that carry's passengers). But the PAF caught that and banned all commercial flights coming from India and that was the case for a long time. I think this story was leaked out in a couple of places too.

On your comment about the time to respond, the PAF practices various types of responses as part of it's operational preparedness like any professional force. The response didn't need planning and could've been executed the same day had it been a war like situation. But since Pakistan is a democratic nation, like every democratic nation, the Parliament had to have preceedings and the civilian executive order the strike. So that process was done to ensure the world can see a full nation (elected parliament) backing a response to Indian aggression. Our boys are ready, day or night!

Detecting aircraft versus ensuring the airspace is clear of civilians(whom you don’t care about) regardless of the accuracy of missiles and whatnot is priority.

But the fact is .... civilians get killed at both sides due to both armies and firing..

is that right, we don't' care about civilians? OR, was the real case that the mighty IAF transposed an Indian Airline's commercial signals and used those on a tight knit formation to show an RCS of a 747? And that's why we banned your commercial flights because we didn't want you to try putting a military transponder on a commercial aircraft and we'd shoot that based on the identification and you'd cry alligator tears by putting YOUR OWN CIVLIAN'S lives at RISK?

We respect civilians and even the enemy combatants who were in the air to kill us. Ask EARLY RETIRED Mr. Abhi who is Now-DONE for life from IAF's service when he was a brave man out of a whole squadron and actually flew to fight for his country, WHILE the rest didn't fly and stayed in underground dressing rooms taking fake bathroom breaks!

 

[Commoner]

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne​

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne

Note: This article is based on leaked classified document on the investigation about the No. 51 Squadron of Indian Air Force & its performance against Pakistan Air Force on 27th February 2019 during Operation Swift Retort.

Pakistan Strategic Forum has been able to gain access to documents from inside the Indian Defense Ministry, which we verified as being authentic after an extensive digital forensic study and from corroborations from three different Indian military officials. The documents paint a damning story about the No. 51 Squadron’s performance and its pilot’s unwillingness to get airborne during the Pakistan Air Force’s Operation Swift Retort.

The documents seen by Pakistan Strategic Forum, which we have shared with Pakistani authorities and also sent to two media houses in India, are concerned with a three month long internal inquiry called on by the Indian Defense Ministry after fighter pilots assigned to the Srinagar-based No. 51 Squadron were “unwilling and unable to get airborne against the enemy during the PAF’s ingress into Indian territory”. The Indian MoD’s inquiry points to the exact time when the No. 51 squadron were tasked to scramble and fly towards their vectored sector, and the exact time Abhinandan’s sortie was taking-off, noticing a massive time difference of almost 30 minutes between the two events.

The inquiry’s internal documents go on to say that after multiple debriefs and extensive questioning of the squadron’s airmen, ground crew and pilots, that the board of inquiry “has established beyond reasonable doubt that the officers and pilots of the Srinagar AFS showed a complete lack of willingness to follow the given orders and this led to an imbalance in force ratio to Indian disadvantage at a decisive juncture in the events of that day, and led to the shooting down of Abhinandan’s jet”. Of course, the IAF officers conducting the inquiry forgot to mention how it was the superior strategy and tactics of Pakistani offensive counter-air units in the sky that led to that particular shoot down.

At least 7 different ground crew were able to state on record that the majority of pilots were already showing fear and unwillingness to be sent into the air after Indian Air Force were all alerted around 9:20 AM on the 27th of February 2019. One senior pilot in the squadron said that he hoped the IAF Western Command “would not be stupid enough” to send their R-77 armed MiG-21s to go fight the PAF’s F-16s and JF-17s calling it a “suicide mission”, and would rather send the better-equipped Mirage 2000s and Su-30MKIs.

This led to the pilots, gathered together in a briefing room at Srinagar Air Base, looking at each other uneasily and agreeing silently that this is the right decision. The pilots later debated on whether they should communicate to their superiors at the base about their feelings on the situation, portraying the recommendations as for the safety of pilots and the aircraft.

To their dismay, the orders came much earlier than they had expected and they were left with facing the uneasy prospect of going into the air against a superior adversary with almost no support from the other, more capable fighters in the IAF’s inventory.

The internal inquiry states that the IAF pilots were unwilling to take off primarily because they felt that they had inferior platforms, as well as lapses in planning. What the inquiry fails to say is that at that time, Indian Su-30MKIs in the area had already been heavily beaten back by Paksitani F-16s firing their AIM-120 missiles, hitting and shooting down one of them at around 9:32 AM. Similarly, two IAF Mirage 2000s in the area reported heavy interference in comms and jamming of their radars by the Pakistani JF-17A Thunder jets they were facing, and were requesting to return-to-base (RTB) fearing that if they got closer to the border the JF-17s might shoot them down.

The No. 51’s pilots knew this, and thus that became one of the main reasons that pilots were unwilling to go into their fighters and scramble to take off. The inquiry report even states that one of the pilots gave the excuse of a “stomach bug” and spent 40 minutes in the washrooms as the debate on whether to fly or not was ongoing between the pilots. Eventually after several heated orders coming from the base commander to get airborne, who himself was being lambasted by the commander of IAF Western Command, six pilots mustered up the courage to get into their jets and taxi to the runway.

The inquiry states that of these six, only five took off while one MiG-21 reported a technical issue with his engine thrust, rather conveniently appearing during the taxiing to the runway, and refused to take off, citing ‘safety issues’. Of the five that did took off, only two (one of which was Abhinandan) proceeded to fly to the sector they had been vectored to by their ground controllers, while one of their colleague remained flying further inside Indian airspace, and the other two flew CAPs over Srinagar AFS, all three technically disobeying direct orders to fly to the LOC and take on the PAF. Later, Abhinandan and his wingman were also heavily jammed as they came near the border, and due to this they could not access radar information or subsequent IAF ground controller’s orders to turn back because they could see only two Indian fighters were heading towards a heavy concentration of PAF fighter sweeps.

According to a former and currently serving Indian air force official that spoke to PSF under the condition of anonymity considering the sensitivity of the issue, said that in the next two minutes, things happened in rapid succession as Abhinandan’s wingman abandoned or left him and turned back, unknown to Abhinandan who thought he was being followed by his wingman and going to confront a single Pakistani Mirage III fighter-bomber.

All of his comms being jammed and with no air-intercept radar opportunities being available, he was unaware that he had, quite literally, no support assets at his disposal and he was being watched by Pakistani airborne early warning aircraft, being jammed by the PAF’s electronic warfare aircraft and was walking into a hornet’s nest. He was confronted by a F-16 fighter and his wingman, who shot a single AIM-120C missile at the MiG-21 Bison, whose old and malfunctioning radar warning receiver only began beeping when the missile was in the air and coming towards him, flowing hot at over Mach 2. He had no time to react and ejected as his plane was hit and shot down in a ball of flame. The rest, as they say, is history.

According to data available with Pakistan Strategic Forum, the Pakistani airstrikes began that day at around 9:25 AM local time, and Indian air defenses vectored the No. 51 squadron’s MiG-21s at the same time. The three MiG-21s took off from Srinagar AFS at 9:47 AM, raising serious questions on the lapses in training and chain-of-command at IAF, which ultimately led to this inquiry and its findings.

The inquiry also stated that the board recommends grounding 13 pilots and disbanding the squadron from IAF service. Later, under the excuse of a routine phase-out of the MiG-21 from the Indian Air Force, the squadron was disbanded from the Indian Air Force and will not be re-equipped with new fighters. This serious lapse also led to the commander of Indian Western Air Command being removed from his post, according to a serving Indian Air Force official that spoke to PSF on the topic during our investigation.

It seems the planned phase-out of the MiG-21 happened at just the right time and acted as a blessing-in-disguise for the already embarrassed Indian Air Force, saving face from an abysmal performance in the 2019 skirmishes with Pakistan. The No. 51 squadron was disbanded on the 30th of September 2022, and the grounded pilots are now being assigned menial posts in such branches as logistics and accounting in faraway Indian air stations.

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne

This article is based on leaked classified document on the investigation about the No. 51 Squadron of Indian Air Force & its performance against Pakistan Air Force on 27th February 2019 during Operation Swift Retort

pakstrategic.com

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The grounded pilots are at least alive and in one piece.
This precedent should be a benchmark for the rest of IAF pilots.

 

[SecularNationalist]

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne​

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne

Note: This article is based on leaked classified document on the investigation about the No. 51 Squadron of Indian Air Force & its performance against Pakistan Air Force on 27th February 2019 during Operation Swift Retort.

Pakistan Strategic Forum has been able to gain access to documents from inside the Indian Defense Ministry, which we verified as being authentic after an extensive digital forensic study and from corroborations from three different Indian military officials. The documents paint a damning story about the No. 51 Squadron’s performance and its pilot’s unwillingness to get airborne during the Pakistan Air Force’s Operation Swift Retort.

The documents seen by Pakistan Strategic Forum, which we have shared with Pakistani authorities and also sent to two media houses in India, are concerned with a three month long internal inquiry called on by the Indian Defense Ministry after fighter pilots assigned to the Srinagar-based No. 51 Squadron were “unwilling and unable to get airborne against the enemy during the PAF’s ingress into Indian territory”. The Indian MoD’s inquiry points to the exact time when the No. 51 squadron were tasked to scramble and fly towards their vectored sector, and the exact time Abhinandan’s sortie was taking-off, noticing a massive time difference of almost 30 minutes between the two events.

The inquiry’s internal documents go on to say that after multiple debriefs and extensive questioning of the squadron’s airmen, ground crew and pilots, that the board of inquiry “has established beyond reasonable doubt that the officers and pilots of the Srinagar AFS showed a complete lack of willingness to follow the given orders and this led to an imbalance in force ratio to Indian disadvantage at a decisive juncture in the events of that day, and led to the shooting down of Abhinandan’s jet”. Of course, the IAF officers conducting the inquiry forgot to mention how it was the superior strategy and tactics of Pakistani offensive counter-air units in the sky that led to that particular shoot down.

At least 7 different ground crew were able to state on record that the majority of pilots were already showing fear and unwillingness to be sent into the air after Indian Air Force were all alerted around 9:20 AM on the 27th of February 2019. One senior pilot in the squadron said that he hoped the IAF Western Command “would not be stupid enough” to send their R-77 armed MiG-21s to go fight the PAF’s F-16s and JF-17s calling it a “suicide mission”, and would rather send the better-equipped Mirage 2000s and Su-30MKIs.

This led to the pilots, gathered together in a briefing room at Srinagar Air Base, looking at each other uneasily and agreeing silently that this is the right decision. The pilots later debated on whether they should communicate to their superiors at the base about their feelings on the situation, portraying the recommendations as for the safety of pilots and the aircraft.

To their dismay, the orders came much earlier than they had expected and they were left with facing the uneasy prospect of going into the air against a superior adversary with almost no support from the other, more capable fighters in the IAF’s inventory.

The internal inquiry states that the IAF pilots were unwilling to take off primarily because they felt that they had inferior platforms, as well as lapses in planning. What the inquiry fails to say is that at that time, Indian Su-30MKIs in the area had already been heavily beaten back by Paksitani F-16s firing their AIM-120 missiles, hitting and shooting down one of them at around 9:32 AM. Similarly, two IAF Mirage 2000s in the area reported heavy interference in comms and jamming of their radars by the Pakistani JF-17A Thunder jets they were facing, and were requesting to return-to-base (RTB) fearing that if they got closer to the border the JF-17s might shoot them down.

The No. 51’s pilots knew this, and thus that became one of the main reasons that pilots were unwilling to go into their fighters and scramble to take off. The inquiry report even states that one of the pilots gave the excuse of a “stomach bug” and spent 40 minutes in the washrooms as the debate on whether to fly or not was ongoing between the pilots. Eventually after several heated orders coming from the base commander to get airborne, who himself was being lambasted by the commander of IAF Western Command, six pilots mustered up the courage to get into their jets and taxi to the runway.

The inquiry states that of these six, only five took off while one MiG-21 reported a technical issue with his engine thrust, rather conveniently appearing during the taxiing to the runway, and refused to take off, citing ‘safety issues’. Of the five that did took off, only two (one of which was Abhinandan) proceeded to fly to the sector they had been vectored to by their ground controllers, while one of their colleague remained flying further inside Indian airspace, and the other two flew CAPs over Srinagar AFS, all three technically disobeying direct orders to fly to the LOC and take on the PAF. Later, Abhinandan and his wingman were also heavily jammed as they came near the border, and due to this they could not access radar information or subsequent IAF ground controller’s orders to turn back because they could see only two Indian fighters were heading towards a heavy concentration of PAF fighter sweeps.

According to a former and currently serving Indian air force official that spoke to PSF under the condition of anonymity considering the sensitivity of the issue, said that in the next two minutes, things happened in rapid succession as Abhinandan’s wingman abandoned or left him and turned back, unknown to Abhinandan who thought he was being followed by his wingman and going to confront a single Pakistani Mirage III fighter-bomber.

All of his comms being jammed and with no air-intercept radar opportunities being available, he was unaware that he had, quite literally, no support assets at his disposal and he was being watched by Pakistani airborne early warning aircraft, being jammed by the PAF’s electronic warfare aircraft and was walking into a hornet’s nest. He was confronted by a F-16 fighter and his wingman, who shot a single AIM-120C missile at the MiG-21 Bison, whose old and malfunctioning radar warning receiver only began beeping when the missile was in the air and coming towards him, flowing hot at over Mach 2. He had no time to react and ejected as his plane was hit and shot down in a ball of flame. The rest, as they say, is history.

According to data available with Pakistan Strategic Forum, the Pakistani airstrikes began that day at around 9:25 AM local time, and Indian air defenses vectored the No. 51 squadron’s MiG-21s at the same time. The three MiG-21s took off from Srinagar AFS at 9:47 AM, raising serious questions on the lapses in training and chain-of-command at IAF, which ultimately led to this inquiry and its findings.

The inquiry also stated that the board recommends grounding 13 pilots and disbanding the squadron from IAF service. Later, under the excuse of a routine phase-out of the MiG-21 from the Indian Air Force, the squadron was disbanded from the Indian Air Force and will not be re-equipped with new fighters. This serious lapse also led to the commander of Indian Western Air Command being removed from his post, according to a serving Indian Air Force official that spoke to PSF on the topic during our investigation.

It seems the planned phase-out of the MiG-21 happened at just the right time and acted as a blessing-in-disguise for the already embarrassed Indian Air Force, saving face from an abysmal performance in the 2019 skirmishes with Pakistan. The No. 51 squadron was disbanded on the 30th of September 2022, and the grounded pilots are now being assigned menial posts in such branches as logistics and accounting in faraway Indian air stations.

“It’s A Suicide Mission, Sir!”: Indian Air Force Squadron Disbanded Due to Refusal By Pilots To Get Airborne

This article is based on leaked classified document on the investigation about the No. 51 Squadron of Indian Air Force & its performance against Pakistan Air Force on 27th February 2019 during Operation Swift Retort

pakstrategic.com

​

True aukaat of dogs like gaurav arya

 

[Imran Khan]

The IAF did try a second attack. This time they transposed an airliner's signals (Indian Airline's commercial plane that carry's passengers). But the PAF caught that and banned all commercial flights coming from India and that was the case for a long time. I think this story was leaked out in a couple of places too.

On your comment about the time to respond, the PAF practices various types of responses as part of it's operational preparedness like any professional force. The response didn't need planning and could've been executed the same day had it been a war like situation. But since Pakistan is a democratic nation, like every democratic nation, the Parliament had to have preceedings and the civilian executive order the strike. So that process was done to ensure the world can see a full nation (elected parliament) backing a response to Indian aggression. Our boys are ready, day or night!




is that right, we don't' care about civilians? OR, was the real case that the mighty IAF transposed an Indian Airline's commercial signals and used those on a tight knit formation to show an RCS of a 747? And that's why we banned your commercial flights because we didn't want you to try putting a military transponder on a commercial aircraft and we'd shoot that based on the identification and you'd cry alligator tears by putting YOUR OWN CIVLIAN'S lives at RISK?

We respect civilians and even the enemy combatants who were in the air to kill us. Ask EARLY RETIRED Mr. Abhi who is Now-DONE for life from IAF's service when he was a brave man out of a whole squadron and actually flew to fight for his country, WHILE the rest didn't fly and stayed in underground dressing rooms taking fake bathroom breaks!

PAF F - 16 fighter jets scrambled to chase and intercept the Indian plane​

18 Oct, 2019 ​

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*ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Air Force F - 16 fighter jets scrambled to chase and intercept the Indian plane, media report had revealed. *

Indian aircraft on its way to Kabul from New Delhi with was intercepted by Pakistan Air Force fighter jets which then escorted the airliner out of the country's airspace last month, sources in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said today. The incident took place on September 23.

According to DGCA officials, there was confusion over the "call-sign" assigned to the Boeing 737 aircraft when it entered Pakistani airspace prompting the interception.




The aircraft was asked to lower its altitude by the Pakistani Air Force fighters, which news agency ANI reported were F-16s.

The pilots of the SpiceJet flight communicated with Pakistani Air Force fighters, identifying themselves as a commercial airliner.

The Spicejet aircraft was allowed to continue its flight and was escorted until it entered Afghan airspace.

DGCA officials declined to share further details given the sensitivity of the matter.

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

 

[SecularNationalist]

Only those pilots came, who were fond of "phantaastic" tea.

And the starving ones who got their rations eaten by their seniors. Or abhinandan types who never wore such a nice suit and a pair of brown shoes in their lives in India.

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

 

[PDF]

Who did this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1604872304843927553

 

[Trailer23]

You mean a "taange kaamp rahi thi, paseena maathe par tha" moment for Indian Air force?!

Lovely report though, looks like the one who drafted it was inside the base with the pilots.

And then you wonder why you get banned from Twitter!

Beta... , a second thought - you look too old [in your Avatar] to be a 'beta'.

Any-who - you know those Indian Military Officers that you guys keep arresting for falling in those Honey Traps by Pakistani Babes - yeah well, what do you think they've been leaking all along?!!

If you think this Report is lovely - you outta read the by the one written earlier today by the cheesiest News Agency from your neck of the woods...

Chinese designed JF-17 aircraft becomes an embarrassment for Pakistan: Report

Now, how reliable are your sources, hmmmm...

 

[SQ8]

multiple ID Bhaktoras were triggered - banned ones are registering multiple IDs rapidly