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Pak pilot writes to kin of Indian he killed in 1965

Nearly half-a-century after shooting down an Indian civil aircraft under orders during the 1965 war with India, a Pakistan Air Force pilot has sent a condolence message to the daughter of the pilot of the aircraft he downed. Qais Hussain, a flying officer during the 1965 war, made this gesture via email, expressing his condolences. The email is addressed to Farida Singh, daughter of the IAF pilot Jahangir Jangoo Engineer, one of the famous Engineer brothers in the force. The email, with the subject line Condolence, dated Friday, Aug 5, 2011, is copied to Naushad Patel and Jagan Pillarisetti, the Indian contacts who helped Hussain reach out to the bereaved family. Hussain forwarded the email to a group email for Pakistan Air Force colleagues, saying, Most of you would recall that I had shot down an Indian civil aircraft after being scrambled from Mauripur in 1965 War. Referring to an April 2011 article by Air Cdre Kaiser Tufail (The Gujarat Beechcraft Incident - 1965 War, which gives details of the incident, he says it was Naveed Riaz, the Lahore-based businessman and aviation enthusiast, who helped him get in touch with the Indian contacts through whom he then managed to reach Jahangir Engineers daughter. Hussain wrote to Farida Singh, The incident happened 46 years back but it is as fresh in my mind as if it had happened yesterday. The aircraft flown by your father had drifted off course by many a mile and in his search for the destination, he had been going up and down in the border area of Rann of Katchh for quite some time and it made our radar controllers uncomfortable.

                                                                                                               
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