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the only lesson one can draw is be like the Indian airforce and do a simple flypast.
And last year couple of their Hawks collided while rehearsing for an airshow.After they lost a Mirage 2000 in a flypast in late 80's,they stopped aerobatics and haven't suffered a loss atleast during rehearsals/national day parades.
@Windjammer Do you think TST guys are also involved in cleaning the F-16 debris to avoid smuggle of technology ?
And last year couple of their Hawks collided while rehearsing for an airshow.
I agree PAF is doing the aerobatics too often, perhaps they should do the rehearsals for them elsewhere.
That's not a bad lesson to learn IMHO. Imagine for a minute that this plane could have fallen on the civilian population and then what would have happened?
Crashes happen but it has consequences remember the Pak army aviation plane that crashed on houses last year in Rawalpindi and more than 15 people were burnt while in sleep with no dead bodies left to bury even. If incident like that can be avoided then it should be avoided
Honing skills is one thing but showboating should not be encouraged.
But then again, the Mirage wasn't lost on their national day flypast....it failed to come out of a loop during airforce day aerobatics over a base.I knew you'd talk about the hawks but if you could just read my post again i specifically talked about national day flypasts.
To be honest,the airforce needs to stop putting the lives of it's pilots in danger by unnecessary airshows.
Peace
Based on that logic most air forces should stop aerobatics because of the inherent risk that it carries. Yet most go on in spite similar tragedies. On that logic PAF should also cut down on combat pilot training because there's a risk of an accident at such high speed and altitude. Noman Akram was PAF's cream of the crop so there was no "showboating" going on. Every maneuver is carefully calibrated and planned. We still do not know what happened. But everyone on PDF is either a military expert or appears to have foresight of everything even before the details are out..this is apparent from the ludicrous comments on "no lessons learnt". Every thread goes into hundreds of pages but there are only a small proportion of comments or insights worth reading. The army aviation aircraft that crashed last year has absolutely nothing to do with today's tragedy. Strange you are even comparing the two as if the aviation pilots were performing aerobatics that day.
What happened today was a tragedy that is hard to express. Its the sort of news you do not want to hear. We lost a crucial aircraft but that loss will be made up in due course. The loss of our best pilot will be hard to fill. Stopping F-16 aerobatics after this accident because we are too afraid of losing an aircraft only reflects fear and lack of confidence in your pilots, technicians and equipment.