PAF Base Kohat explained

PAF Base Kohat
Iata:	OHT
Icao:	OPKT
Type:	Military airbase
Location:	Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Elevation-F:	1,650
Elevation-M:	503
R1-Number:	14/32
R1-Length-F:	7,717
R1-Length-M:	2,352
R1-Surface:	Asphalt
Pushpin Map:	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan

PAF Base Kohat is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) located in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. While it currently serves as a training base for PAF airmen, the facility was also used as a major operational base of the Royal Air Force during British colonial rule.

Notable incidents

• On 20 February 2003, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed when their Fokker F27 crashed into the hills near the airbase. The aircraft was inbound to Kohat from PAF Base Nur Khan. Among the deceased were two Air Vice-Marshals and Mir's wife.^{[1] [2] [3]}
• On 6 August 2007, two Pakistan Air Force personnel and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on Kohat Road, near the PAF airbase.^[4]

External links

• Kohat Airbase at Global Security

Notes and References

1. http://www.tajanews.com/noqnews/nnqview.php?ArtID=52 News report on the death of Mushaf Ali Mir
2. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030220-0 Neutral report on the accident killing Mushaf Ali Mir from Aviation Safety Network
3. http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/03oct22/edit.htm#5 News report on the death of Mushaf Ali Mir from the Daily Excelsior suggesting a connection with Osama bin Laden
4. http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/07/top8.htm Two PAF men, child injured in bomb blast