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Line 47: ** Flying Officer Farokh Dara Bunsha, No. 7 Sqn, KIA, near [[Amritsar]]. Although the figures have been confirmed by independent sources <ref name="Polmar">{{cite book|last1=Polmar|first1=Norman|title=One hundred years of world military aircraft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlHDyi87AQYC|year=2003|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-1-59114-686-5|page=354|first2=Dana |last2=Bell|quote=Mohammed Mahmood Alam claimed five victories against Indian Air Force Hawker Hunters, four of them in less than one minute! Alam, who ended the conflict with 11 kills, became history's only jet "ace-in-a-day."}}</ref><ref name="Nordeen's Indo-Pak 1965 Conflict">{{cite book|last=O' Nordeen|first=Lon|title=Air Warfare in the Missile Age|year=1985|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0-87474-680-8|pages=84–87}}</ref> some Indian sources claim that Alam made four kills, attributing one of the losses of [[Sqn Ldr]] Onkar Nath Kacker's aircraft to technical failure or some other cause, including the possibility of ground fire.<ref name=avhist>''Pakistan's Sabre Ace'' by Jon Guttman, Aviation History, Sept 1998.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Singh |first=Pushpindar |title=Fiza ya, Psyche of the Pakistan Air Force |publisher=Himalayan Books |year=1991 |isbn=81-7002-038-7|page=30}}</ref> Even though independent sources have printed numerous gun camera pictures,<ref name="Nordeen's Indo-Pak 1965 Conflict">{{cite book|last=O' Nordeen|first=Lon|title=Air Warfare in the Missile Age|year=1985|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0-87474-680-8|pages=84–87}}</ref> some Indian sources claim that gun camera footage of Alam's kills is yet to be made public and therefore his kills cannot be confirmed.<ref name=Rakshak>[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1965War/Chapter5.html 30 Seconds Over Sargodha – The Making of a Myth: 1965 Indo-Pak Air War, Chapter 5] {{wayback|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1965War/Chapter5.html |date=20100207194926 |df=y }}, [[Bharat Rakshak]]</ref>
In 1967, Alam was transferred as the Squadron Commander of the first squadron of [[Dassault Mirage III]] fighters procured by the [[Pakistan Air Force|PAF]]. He was removed from staff college based on a false pretext in May 1969. In 1972, he commanded No. 26 Squadron for two months.<ref name=avhist>''Pakistan's Sabre Ace'' by Jon Guttman, Aviation History, Sept 1998.</ref> | |||