Regarding the last four, he stated: "Before we had completed more than about 270 degrees of turn, at around 12 degrees per second, all four Hunters had been shot down." In 1978, when he gave a speech at a Karachi university, he said that he saw a spiritual force coming from the sky. During the war, he was posted at Sargodha.Īccording to the PAF, in a single sortie on 7 September 1965, Alam downed five aircraft with four in less than a minute, establishing a world record. His actions have placed him at the top of the hall of fame list at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum in Karachi. Service with the Pakistan Air Force Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ĭuring the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Alam scored an "ace in a day" on 7 September 1965, with a total of 5 kills. Some of his younger brothers became distinguished in various academic careers. Being the eldest of his 11 siblings, Alam did not marry as he had to assume the responsibilities of the upbringing of his family. His family moved to Pakistan in 1971, after the secession of East Pakistan. Sajjad Alam, a particle physicist at SUNY Albany. Shahid Alam, an economist and a professor at Northeastern University, and M. He joined the then Royal Pakistani Air Force (now Pakistan Air Force) in 1952, being commissioned on 2 October 1953. It was in East Pakistan, where Alam completed his secondary education, graduating from the Government High School in Dhaka in 1951. The family migrated from Calcutta to eastern Bengal which became East Pakistan, now Bangladesh following the formation of Pakistan in 1947. Born and raised in Bengal, Alam was a fluent Bengali speaker, however his paternal line was of Urdu-speaking Bihari origin having emigrated from Patna and settled in the Bengal province of British India for a long time. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat, the nation's third highest military award with Bar for his actions.Īlam was born on 6 July 1935 to a well-educated family of Calcutta, British India. He was a F-86 Sabre flying ace as per Pakistan Air Force records. Haider since the gun camera footage was never made public. These claims, however, have been widely contested by Indian Air Force and retired PAF Air Commodore Sajad S.
Air Commodore Muhammad Mahmood Alam SJ ( Urdu: محمد محمود عالم 6 July 1935 – 18 March 2013) was a Pakistani fighter pilot credited by the Pakistan Air Force for having downed five Indian Air Force Hawker Hunter aircraft in 1 minute during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 on 7 September 1965.However he failed to give and proof.
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