India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan
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India said Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance, giving its version of events after longtime foe Pakistan warned the incident could have "unpleasant consequences."
"On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile," India's defense ministry said in a statement.
"It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident."
The ministry said the government had "taken a serious view and ordered a high-level Court of Enquiry" into the incident.
Earlier on Friday Pakistan's foreign office said it had summoned India's charge d'affaires in Islamabad to lodge a protest over what it called an unprovoked violation of its airspace. Pakistan called for an investigation into the incident, which it said could have endangered passenger flights and civilian lives.
Pakistan warned India "to be mindful of the unpleasant consequences of such negligence and take effective measures to avoid the recurrence off such violations in future".
Military experts have in the past warned of the risk of accidents or miscalculations by the neighbors, which have fought three wars and engaged in numerous military clashes, most recently in 2019 which saw the air forces of the two engage in combat. Both nations have nuclear weapons.
Pakistani military spokesman Major-General Babar Iftikhar said in a late evening news conference on Thursday that a "high-speed flying object" crashed near its eastern city of Mian Channu and that originated from the northern Indian city of Sirsa, in Haryana state near New Delhi.
"The flight path of this object endangered many national and international passenger flights both in Indian and Pakistani airspace as well as human life and property of ground," he said.
Iftikhar in the news conference on Thursday also called on India to share the outcome of its investigation into the incident.
A Pakistan air force official said the object travelled at an altitude of 40,000 feet, at Mach 3, and flew 77 miles in Pakistani airspace before crashing.
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Just because things were dull in the world...
oops. heh, heh. we're so sorry...
I know the feeling. They need to control their tempers.
It feels a bit weird to come down squarely on Pakistan's side of this issue, but damn, how do you accidentally fire a missile? I mean, my desktop has lots of failsafes just to keep me from accidentally deleting a file. Surely it should be at least that hard to fire a missile?
India was too busy making robo calls to the US to spend any time on failsafe issues for missles.
It was probably one of their robocalls that set the missile off.
they called the 1-800 number right after it happened, but nobody could understand the customer service rep...
Ha!
'Walmart gift card' is difficult to translate into anything but English.
Morning..we are playing cricket against Pakistan at the moment..first time we have back over there playing in 25 years I think it is. Due to all the trouble..and bombs going off etc...
India probably didn't like the result. After five days it was a draw...
That's enough for anyone to lose it...
Shit. I trolled one of them yesterday when they called about my car's warranty. Is this my fault?
I don't think the missile fire itself was an accident, but that it went into Pakistan by accident. I ended my Army tour at a missile testing site. I saw all kinds of things go wrong with telemetry.
In 1979, I got to witness a NATO live fire exercise with I-Hawk at a Greek range on Crete. Clear skies, great food and no responsibilities made for a great boondoggle.
Thank you for your service.
always a good idea to shut down the computer before cleaning the keyboard...
always a good idea to shut down the computer before cleaning the keyboard...
Exactly, the key board can get very messy while eating during a watch. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru once said, "Eating Biryani with fork and knife is like making love through an interpreter".
I left mine on one night and the next morning it showed a pet toy site. My cats all had very guilty looks.
Great, so the world's nuclear armed two smaller hot heads are back at it. Bad enough the US and Russia are squaring off in Eastern Europe; and slinging as much hateful misinformation as both can produce. Maybe if we are really lucky and Brandon gets enough money to Iran for oil; we can have a nuclear square off between Iran and Israel.
Last one on the planet to fire their nuclear arsenal wasted all their money! OK everybody on the count of 3 let'em rip!
"The flight path of this object endangered many national and international passenger flights both in Indian and Pakistani airspace as well as human life and property of ground," he said.
"Big sky, little bullet". That's what US Army duck hunters used to say after a malfunction.
But who can forget when Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson, threw a fastball during a spring training game that hit and killed a dove. The bird picked a flight path between home plate and the pitcher’s mound at the exact moment in time and space for it to collide three inch diameter ball.
I remember, that was one unlucky dove
Was it called a ball or a strike?
It was called a death star.
Well, it DID have The Force behind it.
If it were golf, it would have been a birdie.
Can't remember what the umpire called it, however I called it "Holy Crap!!"
I bet Putin was very upset that people weren’t killed and Pakistan didn’t return fire. He’s hoping for a much shinier object for the world to focus on.
Trump also.
Nowhere have I seen that India apologized to Pakistan, or offered to pay reparations for damage caused.
When I read that the missile changed course, I wondered if in fact it was an intended launch aimed at a proper target, but some computer hack genius was able to redirect the missile.
They have of sorts... India said it was deeply regrettable... Pakistan lodged a protest. The missile was unarmed...
Pakistan warned India to be mindful of the unpleasant consequences of such negligence and take effective means to avoid a recurrence of such violations in the future...
Besides the test cricket is on at the moment between Australia and Pakistan. If they beat us Pakistan will declare a national holiday and they wouldn't care what got lobbed into the country...they will be to busy celebrating...
Deeply regrettable? Saying it was "regrettable" doesn't mean that they DID regret it. So "of sorts" is right.
I can't believe they name their missile "The Ghandi"