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| Pakistani Air Force Boss Dies In Crash |
| 2003-02-20 |
| A Pakistani air force plane has crashed in northwestern Pakistan, according to government sources. All 17 people aboard -- including the country's air force chief Mushaf Ali Mir and several other top-ranking officials -- were killed, the sources said. The Fokker aircraft went down around 9:15 a.m. (11:15 p.m. Wednesday ET) west of Islamabad, the sources said. It is not clear what caused the crash. The plane was en route to Kohat... The vice chief of the Pakistan Air Force Syed Qaiser Hussain has been appointed acting chief of the air force, according to news agency reports. |
| Posted by:Pete Stanley |
| #3 General Zia was killed in a plane crash that lead to Pakistan's brief and ineffectual democracy of the 90's. Theories about who brought it down included the CIA, KGB, ISI, it's Indian equivalent, the Military, aliens, Allah. But one of the more accepted theories is that a Shia from Pakistan controlled Kashmir, angry at Generals Zia's brutal crackdown on an uprising there with the use of hundreds of Pashtun mercaneries, planted the bomb. The funny thing is that absolutely noone has ever shown the slightest interest in finding out exactly what happened, which shows you how popular Pakistan's last military dictator was before he died. |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-02-20 03:57:19 |
| #2 Didnt the Paki's lose a prime minister this way some time back? A General Zia, I believe his name was. You know what they say, once by accident, more than once, by design. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-02-20 02:23:37 |
| #1 Well, here's the obvious question: did the plane have any encouragement prior to kissing dirt? |
| Posted by: Crescend 2003-02-20 02:08:53 |