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| Pakistan drone crashes near oil refinery: navy |
| 2011-07-20 |
| [Dawn] A Pak navy drone crashed near an oil refinery after hitting a bird in the country's largest city of Bloody Karachi on Tuesday, the navy said. "A Pakistain Navy UAV crashed after a bird hit it. It fell near an oil refinery and there was no (other) damage," Commodore Irfan Ul Haq, front man Pakistain Navy told AFP in Islamabad. Fellow navy front man Commander Salman Ali told AFP that there were no casualties and that the drone had been on a surveillance flight when a bird accidentally flew into the aircraft and it came down in the Bloody Karachi suburbs. Pakistain is developing its own drone technology for surveillance and reconnaissance missions because the United States, which is running a bombing campaign with drones in the country's northwest, refuses to give Pakistain the technology. Two companies in Islamabad, Satuma and East West Infiniti, make drones for the Pak military. It is not known if the crashed drone belonged to either company. It was the third aircraft crash in Bloody Karachi in eight months. On November 28, seven Ukrainians and a Georgian were killed when their Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane crashed seconds after taking off from Bloody Karachi for Khartoum. Four labourers on the ground were also killed. It crashed into buildings under construction in the Dalmai neighbourhood, where the Pakistain Air Force and Navy have residential apartments and offices close to Jinnah International airport. On November 5, a US-manufactured Beech 1900C also crashed after take off, killing all 21 people on board. The aircraft was operated by local company JS Air and had been carrying staff from an Italian oil company to an oil field in Sindh. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Would that be as opposed to when a bird flys into one on purpose? Otherwise known as a "Taliban Air Force attack". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-07-20 15:57 |
| #3 "when a bird accidentally flew into the aircraft" Would that be as opposed to when a bird flys into one on purpose? /pedant |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-20 13:55 |
| #2 Downed by a b1rd. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-07-20 13:12 |
| #1 Yokay, I'll say it - STOP THAT PIGEON, STOP THAT PIGEON, STOP THAT PIGEON NOW! YA SEE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YA DIDN'T, MORIARITY! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-20 01:49 |