ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320889
| Date: | Thursday 16 August 2012 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Saab 2000 AEW&C |
| Owner/operator: | Pakistan Air Force |
| Registration: | 10049 |
| MSN: | 2000-049 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1997 |
| Engine model: | Allison AE2100A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Kamra-Minhas PAF Base -
 Pakistan
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Several Pakistani militants wearing military uniforms and suicide belts stormed Minhas Air Base at Kamra, Pakistan, just before dawn. A fire fight with security forces ensued in which eight militants and one soldier were killed.
The militants managed to destroy a Saab 2000 AEW&C plane.
Sources:
Gunmen storm military air base in Pakistan (BBC, 16-8-2012)
AWACS plane destroyed in Kamra attack, NA body told (The News International, 7-2-2013)
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