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{{Infobox military person
| name =Zaka Ullah Bhangoo
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date =1948
| death_date =2007
| placeofburial_label =
| placeofburial =Sheikhupura, [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]]
| birth_place =[[Sheikhupura]], [[Pakistan]]
| death_place =south of [[Trabzon]], [[Turkey]]
| placeofburial_coordinates = [[Kot Roshin Din]], [[Sheikupura]]
| nickname =
| birth_name =Zaka Ullah Bhangoo
| allegiance ={{PAK}}
| branch ={{Army|PAK}}
| serviceyears =1968–2000
| rank =[[File:US-O7 insignia.svg|15px]] [[Brigadier]]
| servicenumber =
| unit =23rd Frontier Force Regiment
| commands =1 Army Aviation Sqn
| battles =[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]<br>[[Siachen Conflict]]<br>[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1999]]<br>[[War in North-West Pakistan]]
| battles_label =
| awards =Tamgah-e-Bisalat, Sitara-e-Bisalat
| relations =
| laterwork =
}}
[[Brigadier]] '''Zaka Ullah Bhangoo''' (1948–2007) was a [[Pakistan Army]] aviator and [[one-star general]] who, after his retirement, became involved in flying [[Ultralight aviation|microlight aircraft]]. He was killed in a light plane crash in [[Turkey]] in May 2007 while attempting a flight from the United Kingdom to Pakistan.

== Early life and army career==

Bhangoo was born in 1948 in [[Sheikhupura]], [[Pakistan]], educated at [[Lawrence College Ghora Gali]], and commissioned into the [[Pakistan Army]] in 1968. He flew helicopters such as the [[Aérospatiale Alouette III|Alouette]] and [[Aérospatiale Puma|Puma]], and fixed-wing aircraft such as the [[O-1 Bird Dog]]. He also flew helicopters for the [[Pakistan Army Aviation]]'s VVIP flight for 8 years.

In 2001, he and a co-pilot (Brigadier General Ajab Khan) planned to fly an ultralight aircraft around the world in 80 days. The plane was a US-made Star Streak aircraft with a top speed of {{convert|209|km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010617/world.htm The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) online edition for 17 June 2001.]</ref> The flight did not ultimately take place due to logistical and diplomatic difficulties.<ref>[http://www.historyofpia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8952&highlight=&sid=80a9d859f50bf44e2a513f19e24b85d6 Pakistan Aviation Forum, posted 24 May 2007]</ref>

== Flight incident and death ==

In 2007, he was piloting a light plane with an English friend, [[Mick Newman]], on a flight from the United Kingdom to Pakistan. The pair had set off in a twin-seater Sky Arrow 650T microlight from [[Trabzon]] in Turkey but crashed {{convert|30|mi|km}} south of the city on 13 May 2007. After the crash, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that [[Osman Güneş]], the Turkish interior minister, claimed that the pair were being trailed by the [[National Intelligence Organization (Turkey)|MİT]], Turkey's intelligence organization.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070520055815/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/18/wcrash18.xml Daily Telegraph online edition: ''Bond Sailor in death crash 'was no spy'.'' 19 May 2007]</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Pakistan Army Aviation Corps officers]]
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:2007 deaths]]
[[Category:Pakistani test pilots]]
[[Category:Pilots of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]

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