Pakistan Naval Air Arm Atlantique shootdown

When

10 Aug 1999

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

23.90° N, 68.27° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

16

Shoot down of Pakistani Naval Air Arm airplane by Indian Air Force

The Atlantique incident occurred on 10 August 1999, when a Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft of the Pakistan Naval Air Arm was shot down by a MiG-21 fighter of the Indian Air Force over the Rann of Kutch, on the border between India and Pakistan. Sixteen Pakistani personnel including the pilots were killed as a result.

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