Daughter accepts Pak pilot's apology for dad death

August 11, 2011 14:01

The daughter of a dead Indian pilot has thanked a Pakistani fighter pilot for apologising after shooting down the civilian aircraft that her father was commanding over four decades ago.

Farida Singh's father, Jahangir Engineer, was flying the plane, which had apparently drifted off course along the border, and was subsequently shot down by Qais Hussain, who was a Pakistani pilot during the 1965 war with India.

Forty-six years on, Hussain wrote to Singh, saying that he was sorry for the loss of precious lives during the incident and was acting under orders from his superiors.

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