On June 24, 1965, a Toofani (IC698), nickname given to Dassault MD-450 Ouragan in #India violated the Pakistani border. A pair of F-104s take off to intercept the intruder, which is forced to land in Pakistan.
he pilot, Lieutenant Rana Lal Chand Sikkawew, would return to India sometime later, but the device was requisitioned and preserved at Peshawar Airbase as a war trophy.
September 1965 :
Flt Lt Hatmi chilling with his colleagues at Pasrur Airfield along with the Indian Air Force Gnat fighter jet whose pilot was forced to surrender by PAF F-104...
Indian pilot Sqn Ldr B.P Sikand was returned after the war ended and later became a Air Marshal in IAF...