Pakistan Navy Atlantic shootdown incident happened on 10 August 1999, when a Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft of the Pakistan Navy was shot down by a MiG 21 fighter of the Indian Air Force over the Rann of Kutch, on the border between India and Pakistan indise Indian territory. The Pakistan jet was Inside Indian Air Space when IAF Mig 21 shot down. This incident of fight between Indian Force and Pakistan Jet was happened just 15 days after Kargil war. In the Kargil war, Indian Army recaptures all its peaks and it was fourth defeat of Pakistan against India.
After Indian Air Force shot down Pakistani Plane, Musharraf take over in Pakistan and Nawaz Sharif fled from the country.
The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless coup d'état initiated by the military working under Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharraf. The instigators seized control of the civilian government of publicly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 October 1999.
After the coup, Pervez Musharraf become the President of Pakistan. It was Indian Air Force, who changes the turmoil against Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan over Bhuj Airbase. It was the same Bhuj Air base where Pakistan attacked in 1971 and a Movie of Ajay Devgan was released in Bollywood.
Indian Air Force launched Operation White Sea that is Operation Safed Sagar and it was the turning point in Kargil War.
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