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Chronological Listing of Pakistani
 Losses & Ejections
Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
6th April 1953
RAF		 Harvard T28 FS746 RAFC Crashed into a meadow near Packington, Leicestershire      
Flight Cadet M J Armitage
injured		 Flight Cadet I A
Sahibzada
 [Pakistan Air Force]
 killed		  
16th August 1954
RAF		 Meteor F8 WA966 DFLS Dived into the ground from cloud south of Massingham Flight Lieutenant
Durrani Hayat
 [Pakistan Air Force]
 killed		    
1958
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre     engine flamed out above the Jamrud Range Squadron Leader Khalid Khan ejected His parachute did not open and was killed    
6th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-86 Sabre ?
5 Sqn		 shot down over Halwara, India Sqn. Ldr. Sarfaraz A. Rafiqui attempted to eject but left it too late - KIA NAA
7th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-104     shot down in combat, Sargodha Flt. Lt. Amjad Husain ejected Lockheed / Stanley
8th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-86 Sabre     Lahore sector Flt. Lt. Sadruddin ejected   Martin-Baker
13th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-86 Sabre ? 32 Wing Too low level an attack on goods yard of Gurdaspur Station - hit by fragments of exploding wagons Sqn. Ldr. Alauddin "Butch" Ahmed ejected - believed killed during parachute descent NAA
14th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   Mauripur Base  Hit by flak during attack on  Adampur airfield.


WAS this a friendly fire incident ??

[Their 13th mission]

     Douglas AMI
Pilot Flt. Lt. Altaf  Shaikh 
ejected (POW)		 Navigator Flt. Lt. Bashir A. Chaudri ejected  (POW) Douglas AMI
14th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   Mauripur Base Hit the ground and exploded during bomber strikes on Indian positions Jamnagar. The crash occurred on the way to Jamnagar  
Squadron Leaders Shabbir Alam Siddiqui  killed in crash Sqn. Ldr. Alam Qureshi  killed in crash no ejections
15th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		  Martin RB-57F   No 24 Squadron
Mauripur near Karachi.		 Involved in directing attacks on the Indian radar station at Amritsar. Near hit by SA-2 SAMs on its descent towards Peshawar from Ambala. Forced landing. Damaged. Repaired. Crew ??   no ejections
16th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-86   Sargodha shot down in combat, Taran Taran Flg. Off. Mohammed Shaukat-ul-Islam ejected through shattered canopy at approx. 12,000 ft(POW) Martin-Baker
17th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   Mauripur Base Crashed on approach to  Risalpur in very high winds and limted visibilty due to weather conditions  
Flight Lieutenant M A Butt killed in crash Flight-Lieutanant A. S. Khalid Uz Zaman killed in crash no ejections
20th September 1965
Pakistan A. F.		 F-86     shot down in combat, Lahore sector Flt. Lt. A. H. Mailk ejected   NAA
26th December 1966
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Flt. Lt. Abbas   Martin-Baker
21st January 1967
 (PAF)		 F-6            
16th June 1967
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre            
15th June 1968
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Flg. Off. Medhi   Martin-Baker
15th June 1968
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Sqn. Ldr. Rehman   Martin-Baker
23rd April 1969
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre            
20th November 1969
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Flt. Lt. A.Irfan   Martin-Baker
9th July 1970
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Sqn. Ldr. M.Akbar   Martin-Baker
18th June 1971
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Flt. Lt. Orak Zai   Martin-Baker
Friday
20th August 1971
Pakistan Air Force		 Lockheed T-33
'Bluebird'.		   No. 2 Squadron
Air Force base, Masroor,  Karachi		 PAF M. Matiur Rahman attempted to fly the aircraft to join the liberation movement of Bangladesh. His fellow pilot Minhas Shaheed regained control of the aircraft that subsequently crashed killing both crew.

Although the aircraft and crew were both from Pakistan, Rahman is seen by some in Bangla Desh as one of their first aviator losses.
[Bangla Desh Air Force did not exist before 21st September  1971]

 no ejections


Instructor pilot, M. Mati-ur Rahman died in crash
[Shaheed in Bangla Desh ]
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas died in crash
Shaheed 		no ejections

Pakistan postage stamp issued to commemorate Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas
Plt. Off. Rashid attempted to stop his East Pakistani instructor from hijacking the aircraft to India. Aircraft brought down 32 miles short of the Indian border
3rd December 1971
Pakistan A. F.		 F-104 Starfighter     Shot down by Flt. Lt. Bharat Bushan Soni IAF over the Arabian Sea Wg. Cdr. Mervyn H. Middlecoat SJ ejected at low level into the sea - MIA Lockheed
4th December 1971
 (PAF)		 F86      

 

 Flt. Lt. S. Sajjadnoor    
4th December 1971
 (PAF)		 F86      Shot down by Hunter. Captured by rebels

 

 Flt. Lt. Saeed Afzal Khan bailed out - MIA  
4th December 1971
 (PAF)		       Heard to be ejecting over enemy territory Wg. Cmdr Syed Muhammed Ahmad - MIA  
5th December 1971
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   No 7 Squadron
Mianwali
or
Masroor		 bombing mission to Jamnagar  
Squadron Leader Ishfaq Hameed Qureshi
MIA		 Flight Lieutenant Zulfiqar Ahmad
MIA		  
5th December 1971
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   No 7 Squadron
Mianwali
or
Masroor		 bombing mission against Amritsar airfield  
Flight Lieutenant Javed Iqbal
MIA		 Flight Lieutenant  Ghulam Murtaza Malik
MIA		  
6th December 1971
Pakistan A. F.		 Martin B-57   No 7 Squadron
Mianwali
or
Masroor		 bombing mission to Jamnagar  
Squadron Leader Khusro
MIA		 Squadron Leader Peter Christy
MIA		  
6th December 1971
Pakistan A. F.
(on loan from USAF)		 Martin RB-57D   Masroor Air Base Destroyed on ground by Indian air attack on Masroor Air Base      
6th December 1971
Pakistan A. F.
(on loan from USAF)		 Martin RB-57D   Masroor Air Base Destroyed on ground by Indian air attack on Masroor Air Base      
17th December 1971
 (PAF)		 F-6   No. 25 Squadron Heard to be ejecting over enemy territory Flt. Lt. Syed Shahid Raza - MIA  
12th March 1973
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       A. COM A. R. Yousefzai   Martin-Baker
7th April 1973
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Sqn. Ldr. J. A. Carrapeitt   Martin-Baker
15th May 1973
Libya		 Mirage IIIB     Unrecoverable flat spin. Crashed into the desert south of Tripoli, Libya    

Instructor Tahir Alam (Pakistan Air Force)		 Captain ?? (Egyptian Air Force)
had multiple fractures on his legs 		Martin-Baker
7th May 1974
 (PAF)		 F-86 Sabre       Flg. Off. Sikandar    
27th July 1974
 (PAF)		 Mirage       G. Capt. W. Azim   Martin-Baker
21st December 1974
 (PAF)		 Mirage       Flt. Lt. S.Arshad   Martin-Baker
12th March 1976 
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Z. H. Malik     
3rd April 1976
 (PAF)		 Mirage           Martin-Baker
3rd October 1976
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Hifazat    
23rd December 1976
 (PAF)		 S YANG F6        Flt. Lt. S. H. Ashfaq   Martin-Baker
8th September 1977
 (PAF)		 Mirage 

 

           Martin-Baker
16th May 1977
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Sqn. Ldr. Maqsood    
24th May 1977
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Masroor    
11th October 1977
 (PAF)		 Mirage           Martin-Baker
27th October 1977
 (PAF)		 S YANG F6       P/O M. M. Ayub   Martin-Baker
4th January 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6         P.O S. Ashraf    
10th April 1978
 (PAF)		 Mirage           Martin-Baker
7th March 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Obaid    
8th June 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Sqn. Ldr. Farooq    
12th June 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Naeem    
11th July 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       P.O. Arshad    
16th December 1978
 (PAF)		 SY.F6        Flg. Off. Javed    
1st February 1979
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Younas    
8th September 1979
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Sqn. Ldr. H. A. Khawaja    
18th July 1979
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       P.O Shahid     
18th August 1979
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flt. Lt. Rizvi    
3rd December 1979
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Sqn. Ldr. Nazar

 

    
6th January 1980
 (PAF)		 SY.F6        Flg. Off. A. Mazhar     
16th March 1980
 (PAF)		 SY.F6       Flg. Off. Z. I. Haider    
11th May 1980
 (PAF)		 SY.F6