The crash didn't just hit a school, it tore through childhoods, shattered friendships, and left an entire school traumatised
Timely, coordinated communication vital to dispel rumours
Thirteen-year-old Ukkya Chaing Marma, a seventh-grade student of Milestone School and College, who died after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into his school, was laid to rest in his village in Rangamati's Rajasthali upazila.
Writing it off as a "mechanical failure" will not bring the children back, neither will an apology
For over 24 hours, 11-year-old Raisa Moni’s family had been searching for her frantically. From one hospital to another, from the crash site to morgues, they clung to the hope that she was among the rescued, that she was somewhere -- alive.
It should serve as a wake-up call for aviation safety and emergency response
The same message was shared in the official WhatsApp group of the CA's press wing
Parents wait in agony outside ICU after Milestone jet crash
They have been inside the campus since 10:30am this morning
The same message was shared in the official WhatsApp group of the CA's press wing
Parents wait in agony outside ICU after Milestone jet crash
They have been inside the campus since 10:30am this morning
To grieve without demanding reform is to accept the inevitability of recurrence.
A series of training flight crashes, both military and civilian, have claimed the lives of at least 15 pilots and civilians over the past two decades, before the F7 jet crash in Dhaka’s Uttara yesterday.
Siblings Aryan Ashraf Nafi and Tania Ashraf Nazia lie side by side at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, their small bodies covered in bandages.
Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam Sagar, whose FT-7 jet crashed into Milestone School & College yesterday, was of the 35 squadron, 76 BAFA course.
At least 27 killed in a deadly air force jet crash in Uttara
Production of the F7 series ended in May 2013
The government will take necessary steps to investigate the cause of the crash and will ensure all forms of assistance to those affected
