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Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider)
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed Born: 17th February 1951 in Karachi Commissioned: 1971, Pilot, P.A.F. Pilot Officer Minhas was taxiing for take-off on a routine training flight when an Instructor Pilot forced his way into the rear cockpit, seized control of the aircraft and took off. When Minhas realized that the absconding pilot was heading towards India, he tried to regain control of the plane was unable to do so. Knowing that it meant certain death, he damaged the controls and forced the aircraft to crash thirty two miles short of the border on 20th August 1971. He martyred at the age of 20. |
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