The Haunting Memories of the PAK-1 Crash

[Kamikaze Pilot]

No. That goose was already cooked. Once a step is taken and the aim achieved, there is no sense in killing the sentinal. however, since we do not know what happened it will all be conjecture.
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No. The goose was not cooked yet then. Pakistan had by then acquired military nuclear capability, but not a nuclear arsenal. It did not have a satisfactory delivery capability.

 

[Maarkhoor]

No it wasn't. The hydraulics in the tail failed due to fatigue...which led to failure in the elevator linkages to the reversible flight control system. The elevator pushed down due to gravity which caused the aircraft to pitch down into a nose dive and crash.

The conspiracy theories sell better due to high ranking officials and a head of state on board the aircraft. Had it been regular officers or cargo...nobody would've given care so much as news won't be able to sell that much.

Lols that kind of failure need at least 15 minutes to crash and pilots would have enough time to contact control tower....They way plane crash indicate no blast occurred due to mangoes but nerve agent hidden in cockpit was the only thing that happened....If you read about C-130 there was a mechanism inbuilt ...if the pilots stopped controlling the plane it triggered autopilot which automatically starts circulating the area and after each circle auto pilot lower the height of the plane and eventually crashes it.

 

[Zee-shaun]

Don't we just love aam ki petiyan?

 

[Sine Nomine]

Pitch attitude relay failure due to damage [not fatigue] to elevators. Reason of damage, i do'nt know.

Probably Altimeter activated sabotage device,which was impossible to locate after crash or wasn't located.

Why was no mayday call made then?
It is a matter of concern if the pilots lose control for quite some time but don't make a mayday call.

Read last part of Bear Trap carefully.

I remember a post by a member on a sister forum mentioning 2 PAF officers each having received 5 million dollars to do Zia in. He was becoming a thorn in the side of the US as he knew far too many secrets and could ask the difficult question of" whats in it for my country and for me?" So he was also becoming too expensive to maintain. The post was deleted within 24 hours and I later came to know the person as an Ex PAF person who was son of another PAF high up.
There is in my view sabotage written all over the event but will not be proven ever as people do not want to reopen the investigations as the implications cannot be handled. Zia's life was threatened and he had gone into self imposed exile for the last 6 weeks. A lot of persuasion was involved in getting him out of the Army house. He tried his best by taking along US personnel with him to avoid sabotage but it happenned. How will remain a mystery.
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You are right sir,author of Bear Trap said the same.