At Least 19 Killed, Scores Injured As Navy Jet Crashes Into School Campus

[ad_1] DHAKA (Reuters) — Not less than 19 individuals had been killed and 164 injured as a Bangladesh air pressure coaching jet crashed into a school and faculty campus within the capital Dhaka on Monday after experiencing a technical drawback shortly after take-off, a navy spokesperson stated.

The F-7 BGI jet took off at 1:06 p.m. (0706 GMT) from the Bangladesh Air Drive base in Kurmitola, Dhaka, as a part of a routine coaching mission, however encountered a mechanical failure, stated the spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury.

“The pilot … made a valiant try and divert the plane away from densely populated areas. Regardless of his greatest efforts, the plane … crashed right into a two-storey constructing belonging to Milestone College and School,” he stated.

The pilot was amongst these killed within the incident, the navy stated, including {that a} committee had been shaped to analyze its trigger.

The F-7 BGI is the ultimate and most superior variant in China’s Chengdu J-7/F-7 plane household, based on Jane’s Data Group. Bangladesh signed a contract for 16 plane in 2011 and deliveries had been accomplished by 2013.

The Chengdu F-7 is the licence-built model of the Soviet MiG-21.

Movies of the aftermath of the crash confirmed an enormous fireplace close to a garden emitting a thick plume of smoke into the sky, as crowds watched from a distance.

Firefighters sprayed water on the mangled stays of the aircraft, which appeared to have rammed into the aspect of a constructing, damaging iron grills and making a gaping gap within the construction, footage filmed by Reuters confirmed.

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“A 3rd-grade scholar was introduced in useless, and three others, aged 12, 14 and 40, had been admitted to the hospital,” stated Bidhan Sarker, head of the burn unit on the Dhaka Medical School and Hospital, the place some victims had been taken.

Photos from the scene additionally confirmed individuals screaming and crying as others tried to consolation them.

“Once I was choosing (up) my youngsters and went to the gate, I realised one thing got here from behind … I heard an explosion. Once I regarded again, I solely noticed fireplace and smoke,” stated Masud Tarik, a trainer on the college.

The incident comes a bit of over a month after an Air India aircraft crashed on high of a medical faculty hostel in neighbouring India’s Ahmedabad metropolis, killing 241 of the 242 individuals on board and 19 on the bottom, marking the world’s worst aviation catastrophe in a decade.