PAF aircraft crashes, pilot killed

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Press Trust of India Karachi
Last Updated : Nov 22 2014 | 1:00 AM IST
A Mirage aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed tonight on the outskirts of Karachi, killing the pilot.
The aircraft was on a routine night operational training mission when it went down in Gadaap area near Karachi, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said in a statement.
The pilot of the aircraft Squadron Leader Tanvir Ahmed was killed in the crash, it said.
No loss of civilian life and property has been reported on ground.
A board of inquiry has been ordered by the PAF to determine the cause of accident.
This is the third incident in recent times that a PAF training aircraft has crashed.
A PAF fighter aircraft crashed near Kuchlak, a suburb of Quetta, due to a technical fault last October while in September two pilots were wounded after their MFI-17 Mushshak aircraft crashed near the hills of Ziarat, about 40-kilometres off the Khalid Airbase in Quetta.
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First Published: Nov 22 2014 | 1:00 AM IST

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