Bangladesh plane crash: What happened, what’s the latest

A Bangladesh aerial unit grooming pitchy has crashed into a schoolhouse campus, sidesplitting astatine slightest 19 people.

Here’s the latest we know:

What happened during the Bangladesh level crash?

“Bangladesh Air Force’s F-7 BGI grooming craft crashed successful Uttara. The craft took disconnected astatine 13:06 [07:06 GMT],” the Bangladesh military’s nationalist relations squad said.

Local media reported that the level crashed astatine astir 1:30pm.

Videos emerged of the aftermath of the crash, showing a fire, arsenic good arsenic plumes of heavy fume rising into the entity arsenic radical watched from a distance.

The clang marks the deadliest aviation incidental successful Bangladesh since the 1984 clang of a level travelling from Chattogram to Dhaka killed each 49 radical connected board.

Last month, an Air India rider level crashed into a aesculapian assemblage hostel successful India’s Ahmedabad city, sidesplitting 241 of the 242 radical connected committee arsenic good arsenic 19 radical connected the ground. This incidental marked the world’s worst aviation catastrophe successful a decade.

(Al Jazeera)

Where did the level crash?

The level crashed into the field of Milestone School and College, a backstage schoolhouse successful the bluish Dhaka neighbourhood of Uttara.

Footage shared online aft the clang showed the constituent wherever the craft had crashed into the broadside of a building, leaving a gaping hole.

At the clip of the crash, students were taking tests oregon attending regular classes.

How large is this school?

According to the accusation disposable connected the school’s website, determination are 6,000 enrolled students astatine Milestones.

What benignant of level was it?

The F-7 BGI is simply a light, “multi-role” combatant craft manufactured by the Chinese Chengdu Corporation.

Multi-role combatant craft are built to execute respective “roles” successful combat, including air-to-air combat, aerial bombing, reconnaissance, and suppression of aerial defences.

The BGI was billed arsenic the astir precocious F-7 erstwhile Bangladesh bought 36 of them successful 2022.

It had been upgraded according to Bangladesh’s specifications.

The Bangladesh Air Force’s F-7 BGI [Bangladesh Air Force]

What bash we cognize astir the victims?

At slightest 19 radical person died and much than 100 person been injured, based connected information from aggregate hospitals.

Authorities person not released details astir those who person died oregon are injured.

“A third-grade pupil was brought successful dead, and 3 others, aged 12, 14 and 40, were admitted to the hospital,” Bidhan Sarker, caput of the pain portion astatine the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, told the Reuters quality agency.

What bash the rescue efforts look like?

More than 50 people, including children, were admitted to the infirmary with pain injuries pursuing the crash, a doc astatine the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery told reporters.

An exigency hotline has been acceptable up astatine the institute, Muhammad Yunus, the caput of Bangladesh’s interim government, wrote successful a station connected X.

Local media reported that respective of the injured were transported to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) done aerial unit helicopters.

The army, aerial force, constabulary and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a paramilitary borderline information force, are moving unneurotic connected rescue efforts, section media reported.

Eight units of the occurrence work are moving to incorporate the fire, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

What is the latest concern connected the ground?

Yunus said the authorities is taking each “necessary measures” successful the aftermath of the crash.

He posted connected his X relationship that the bodies of those who tin beryllium identified volition beryllium returned to their families arsenic soon arsenic possible.

Those whose identities cannot beryllium instantly confirmed volition acquisition DNA testing, aft which their remains volition besides beryllium released to their families.

In different post, Yunus shared the emergency contacts of antithetic rescue departments regarding missing schoolhouse students.