Pakistan Military Trainees Collide over Rashkai Field
What: 2 Pakistan Air Force PAC MFI-17 Mushshak en route from RISALPUR (OPRS) Military Airport
Where: Nowshera, Rashkai Pakistan
When: May 17, 2012
Who: 4 pilot fatalities, 1 civilian fatality, 8 injured
Why: Two planes were on a training mission when they collided; then one crashed into a house, and another into the adjoining field. Two trainees and two instructors were killed in the crash. According to reports, the collided in midair. The collision caused a large fire in a residential area.
The deceased were identified as Mohazzam, Mustafa, Masood and Zareen.
Witnesses say the wings knocked together and set the planes on fire. Inside the house, two residents, a girl and an elderly man, were injured.
Pakistan Air force Headquarters is investigating. There have been six PAC crashes in the last seven months.