Pakistani military helicopter crashes during night raid

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Pakistani military helicopter crashes during night raid

An army helicopter crashed during a night raid in Balochistan province near the city of Khost in southwestern Pakistan. All six people on board were killed, including two pilots. The youngest soldier was 27 years old, the oldest - 44 years old.

The accident occurred in the Ernai district, about 120 km north of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. The military command did not provide any further details about the accident and the purpose of the night mission, issuing a lengthy statement.



The helicopter on a flight mission crashed last night. Six people, including two officers with the rank of majors (both pilots), received shahdat (sacred martyrdom in Islam - ed.) as a result of the crash

- said in a statement.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed his condolences and prayed for the fallen soldiers and their families on September 25. Local opposition leader and former Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry demanded a security assessment of the Pakistan Army's helicopters.

Authorities said they would investigate the incident, the second helicopter crash in the past two months. On August 1, an army helicopter crashed in the Lasbela area of ​​Balochistan during a flood relief operation. The accident then also killed 6 people, including high-ranking Lieutenant General Sarfaraz Ali.

Balochistan is a key player in China's One Belt, One Road project. At the same time, Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, is the center of a long-standing separatist movement. Various militias in the province have already reported attacks on Pakistani security forces. But so far, no group has claimed responsibility for Sunday's crash.

The current plane crash comes days after insurgents kidnapped two security personnel in the region. Since then, the secret services have been trying to find and save their colleagues. The failed night air mission could be connected with this.

The names of the dead soldiers of the army of Pakistan are named:

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    1. +1
      26 September 2022 14: 12
      Pilots - yes, but ... Make of the car? ................. request
      1. -3
        26 September 2022 14: 36
        Apparently, Mi-17. Wikipedia says Pakistan has them.
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          26 September 2022 14: 49
          Quote: aleksandrvvsysop
          Apparently, Mi-17. Wikipedia says Pakistan has them.
          Wikipedia says they are not there. In the Air Force for 2020 only:
          SA319 Alouette III France Multipurpose helicopter 15
          AW139 Italy Multipurpose Helicopter 4
          In 2016, there were several MI-17s, but ...... now they are gone. request
          1. 0
            26 September 2022 16: 49
            And look at the photo - no way? There are characteristic features of the Mi-17. And Wikipedia should be read not only in Russian. The English section links to https://quwa.org/2019/10/22/aw139-the-pakistan-air-forces-new-mainstay-sar-helicopter/
            Literally the first paragraph.
    2. 0
      26 September 2022 14: 57
      It's not us, if what! And then again Putin will be blamed.
    3. +1
      26 September 2022 15: 06
      It happens.
      Sorry for the dead.
      request request
      Comment text is too short
    4. +1
      26 September 2022 15: 43
      I think it is also likely that the rebels got hold of the stingers handed over to the dill.
    5. 0
      26 September 2022 16: 17
      about 120 km north of Quetta

      It's almost exactly the border with Afghanistan. And there you can shoot whatever you want from anywhere ...
    6. -1
      26 September 2022 23: 54
      Pakistan is lucky that Shiites (who want to join Balochistan with Iran) are a minority in both Iranian and Pakistani) Balochistan. Otherwise, India would have divided it just as it did with East Pakistan. An unelected, corrupt man backed by the US now rules the country, it is economically ruined, Balochistan's secession will eventually happen.

      Pakistan has not always been like this, it has been suffering from the US/India since its birth. British and Indian intelligence assassinated their first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, to stop the Islamization of the country, and power passed to the pro-Western secular people they supported. This is one of the main reasons why Pakistan easily joined the US during the Soviet-US conflict.
      President Ayub Khan was a very talented leader, throughout his reign Pakistan has become and remains the largest economy in Asia. But he was very pro-Chinese and Pakistan was getting stronger militarily. The US needed to remove this pro-Chinese leader, as well as make sure that Pakistan cannot take back Kashmir (which it could easily do if it stayed on track for another 5 years) and always remain a servant of the US. Thus, the pro-US General of the Army started a US-ordered war with India, a war in which the US imposed an unofficial arms embargo on Pakistan and secretly sold arms to India (not secret now, available on Wikipedia). After an unsuccessful war, Pakistan's economy was devastated and Ayub left.
      The US directly killed the next good leader, President Zia-ul-Haq. He managed to save Pakistan's economy from total destruction, suspend or hang collaborators of foreign powers, and make Pakistan the highest grossing economy in Asia. The sandal-wearing Afghan Mujahideen only triumphed over the superpower thanks to him and the intelligence agency he rebuilt from scratch. But after the defeat of the Soviet Union, it was time to finish him off as he turned out to be a cunning and dangerous leader, Pakistan was improving at a very high rate compared to India, and what's more, he planned to unite Pakistan and Afghanistan together. Therefore, they killed him along with the US diplomat so that no one suspected them (another version is that Zia-ul-Haq forced the US diplomat to board the plane with such a guarantee, as he suspected of a possible CIA attempt on his life for some time). But after the plane crashed after the data recorder and black box were recovered, a report by the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence agency) determined that the CIA, along with regional intelligence (either Mossad or RAW), was the culprit. The report says that everyone on the plane died more than a minute before the plane crashed, including both pilots, and they found poison gas residues on the plane's body. Then, some time later, the US-backed Afghan hater Musharraf came to power and joined Pakistan in the illegal US invasion of Afghanistan. The rest is history.

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