Air force training jet crashes...
Posted by: Eastwestdirectory.com on Apr 25, 06 | 6:09 pm
A training plane of Bangladesh Air Force crashed in a jute field at Kotchandpur in the south-western district of Jhenaidah on Monday killing its lone pilot.(New Age)
The PT-6 aircraft was on a training flight when it crashed in the field at around 11:20am in village Moharrampur, some 25 kilometres from the district town. Its young pilot, flight cadet wing under officer, Md Taniul Islam, was killed on the spot.
In preliminary investigation, engine trouble was stated to be the reason for the crash.
Villagers said they saw the plane spiralling in the sky with noise. ‘Within minutes, it crashed with a bang,’ Atiar Rahman Master of Moharrampur, told New Age at the scene.
Locals rushed to the spot and saw smoke curling from the burning wreckage of the plane. A police team from Kotchandpur also went there.
About 25 minutes later, fire fighters from a nearby station arrived there and pulled out the body of Taniul by cutting open the cockpit. The body was taken to Kotchandpur upazila health complex.
Rescue teams went to the scene on two helicopters and carried the body of Taniul to Combined Military Hospital in Jessore, air force officials said.
Air force chief, Air Vice Marshal Fakrul Azam, visited the spot along with other officials.
‘He (Taniul) was on a training mission, and took off from the air force academy in Jessore at 10:45am,’ a squadron leader of the air force said on the spot.
He said technical faults might have caused the crash. The air force chief, however, said nothing could be said before a thorough investigation of the accident.
In a press release, Inter Service Public Relations said, ‘After preliminary investigation it was presumed that technical fault might have caused the crash.’
A three-member committee, headed by group captain, Morshed Hasan Siddiqui, has been formed to investigate the plane crash, the release said.
Born in Hajiganj of Chandpur on June 25 1986, Taniul joined the air force on July 20, 2004 as a flight cadet. Earlier in 2004, three pilots were killed when an air force training fighter crashed into a house at Fayedabad in Uttara on the outskirts of the city.
Courtesy:bangladesh web
