The French-built Breguet Atlantic (Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic) plane, flight Atlantic-91, c/n 33, of 29 Squadron,[REF] was one of the Pakistan Navy's frontline aircraft, used primarily for patrol and reconnaissance.
The incident was the Pakistan Navy's only loss of an aircraft to hostile fire in its history since Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, and the biggest combat-related casualty for the Navy since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.