As the first pair of Sabres started their climb, Bhatti called on the radio "Target at 3 o'clock", and Shamim replied "Lead and No 2 pulling up". By this time the target area was a veritable inferno of light and medium flak and within a few seconds there came another call, "Two is hit". Bhatti, when later describing the mission, recalled it in these words:

"No 2 of course, was Munir but his voice on the radio was calm and unhurried. As I looked down, however, I saw three balls of flame tumbling through the air where his Sabre had already exploded. He must have taken a direct hit from a heavy ack ack shell and never had a chance to eject. The flaming wreckage fell on the eastern outskirts of Amritsar town, and Munir was reported that evening by the Indians to have been found dead in the debris".

Wing Commander Shamirn completed his strafing attack, firing long bursts into the radar aerials with his 6in machine guns. Bhatti called up and said, "How about me having a go", and the remaining 2 Sabres then came in to expend most of their ammunition on the radar installation before exiting, still at low level. Munir's loss on his ninth combat mission of the war was deeply felt at Sargodha and throughout the PAF, among whom he is remembered as a 'professional to the end'. Both his courage and inspiration were recognised by the posthumous award of the Sitara-i-Jurat. For the first time, Amritsar radar was put out of action for several hours, and it remained only intermittently effective for some time afterwards.

On 11 September, with an escort of 4 F-86s led by F/L Bhatti, and 2 F-1 04s from Sargodha flying top cover, the vulnerability of the 4 bombers to effective enemy interception was considered acceptable, especially since the target was only just inside Indian territory. As an additional precaution the TOT was fixed at dusk, with a rendezvous time of 1715 hours over Bhagatanwala for the 10 aircraft involved.

On this occasion the attack went completely to plan. After a low level approach from Pakistan, the B-57 formation, led by Wing Commander Latif pulled up to their briefed attack height of around 7,000 ft, above the reach of light flak, to dive bomb the target. Each B-57 delivered its full load of 7,000 lbs of bombs in the target area, and all the PAF aircraft returned safely, despite heavy ack ack fire. This time 'Fishoil' really did go off the air, as a result of the heavy damage caused by 28,000 lbs of bombs, and photographic reconnaissance of the target the next day revealed that the site had been vacated. For this recce flight, one of 9 Squadron's two unarmed two-seat F-1 04B Starfighter trainers was pressed into service, using a hand-held camera in the rear cockpit for oblique photography. Piloting the F-1 04 was Flight Lieutenant Aftab Alam, with Squadron Leader Middlecoat as cameraman. Flying at highspeed (around 600 knots) at about 3,000 ft, the F-1 04 evaded both ack ack fire as well as fighter interception, the only problem being that g forces resulting from the turn over the target made the heavy camera, which normally formed part of a fixed aircraft installation, almost impossible to lift. But the F-104 also managed to get some photographs of Adampur airfield in the same sortie, before returning safely to Sargodha.