Posted on 07/21/2025 8:02:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least 19 people have died and 164 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka.
Footage from Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a two-storey building.
The armed forces said in a statement on Facebook that the F-7 jet experienced a mechanical fault after taking off for a training exercise just after 13:00 local time (07:06 GMT). The pilot was among those killed, the air force added.
More than 50 people, including children and adults, were taken to hospital with burns, a doctor at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery said.
The age range for students attending the school is between four and 18 years old.
A teacher at the college, Rezaul Islam, told BBC Bangla that he saw the plane "directly" hit the building.
Another teacher, Masud Tarik, told Reuters that he heard an explosion: "When I looked back, I only saw fire and smoke... There were many guardians and kids here."
A student said he saw the plane hit the building "right in front of my eyes".
The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Md. Taukir Islam, had tried to navigate the jet to a less populated area after the mechanical fault occurred, the armed forces statement said. He had only just taken off from an air force base in the capital.
The injured have been transferred to nearby hospitals, while emergency teams are continuing rescue operations at the scene. An investigation committee has been formed to look into the incident, the statement added.
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Tofu dreg strikes again
China only makes shoddy crap.
Bangladesh should be thankful that China really delivered an actual plane and didn’t scam them with a model or a picture of a plane sent to Pakistan with a picture of the box at someone else’s door to prove it was delivered.
Something I've long wondered is why orange in a camo pattern?
To fool the tigers....................
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I’ve never seen such distress
This plane looks like it belongs in a museum..
Yes, it’s basically a Chinese copy of a MIG-21, IIRC............
Last week at a Cabelas, I saw a camouflage hunters cap with orange as a major color. Why?
I thought hunters wear orange so that other hunters don’t confuse them with prey....unless hunting tigers.
Pilots name Muhammed Islam....kinda like Moses Judaism, or Jesus Christian, or Shiva Hindu...
From what I gather from their website, Milestone school and college appears to be quite western. No mention of sectarian membership.
According to the “net” that area of Bangladesh is 90% Muslim and about 8% Hindu....
Milestone college is not a small place. This could have been a terrorist attack. Was pilot aiming for empty space, or a building?
In an era of worldwide terrorism can’t put anything off as simple error. IMHO.
Pilots name Muhammed Islam....kinda like Moses Judaism, or Jesus Christian, or Shiva Hindu...
From what I gather from their website, Milestone school and college appears to be quite western. No mention of sectarian membership.
According to the “net” that area of Bangladesh is 90% Muslim and about 8% Hindu....
Milestone college is not a small place. This could have been a terrorist attack. Was pilot aiming for empty space, or a building?
In an era of worldwide terrorism can’t put anything off as simple error. IMHO.
Originally called “East Pakistan”
That said, why would the orange colors be arranged in a camou pattern along with typical camou colors (green, grey etc)?
Nothing of value was lost.
It has a slight resemblance to a Sukhoi Su-7 built by the Soviets in the sixties.
Have no idea....maybe a large field of orange will scare off the game...?
Still in a camo design because camo looks cooler than flat color. Orange because it’s a color deer don’t differentiate but it’s very noticeable to humans.
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