Wings of Duty

Wings of Duty — Page 57

57 for the Chief Minister, Muhammad Ayub Khuhro. When Huzoor found out, he immediately sent me to Karachi with instructions to buy both the remaining planes. One would be for the community which it would pay for. The other would be for the government of Azad Kashmir and they would make the payment for the purchase. Back then, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was to some extent involved in the administrative affairs of Kashmir. I remained in Karachi for many weeks. Once both planes had been assembled and our test flights were completed, they were registered by the CAA. I then flew the first plane which belonged to the community to Lahore via Jacobabad and Multan. A few days later, I returned to Karachi by train and flew the second plane by the same route to Lahore and then on to Chaklala Airport in Rawalpindi. The Azad Kashmir government had an office in Rawalpindi and I handed the airplane over to them. Unfortunately, the administration did not take care of its plane. Both its flight and technical supervision was under the care of unskilled and negligent personnel. The result was that within two months the plane was involved in two accidents, in the second of which it hit a tree on taking off and