The Gujarat Beechcraft incident was an event during the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...

. On 19 September that year an American-made

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jet fighter of the

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(PAF) shot down an Indian-registered civilian

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twin-engine

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Balwantrai Mehta Balwantrai Mehta ( – ) was an Indian politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Gujarat state, India. He participated in Indian independence movement and later held various public offices. He is considered as the 'Architect of ''Pa ...

, who at the time was the

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of the Indian state of

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, was killed in the attack along with his wife, three members of his staff, a journalist and two crew members. Qais Hussain, a PAF flying officer during the 1965 war, was the pilot who fired on the civilian aircraft under orders from his superiors. In August 2011 he wrote to Farida Singh, the daughter of the deceased civilian pilot, via email, expressing his condolences. CHINA AVIATION MUSEUM AT DATANSHAN CHINA OCT 2012 (8915897427)

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