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A Bangladesh Air Force training plane crashed in a bamboo grove in Bogura on Sunday noon. However, the pilots were unharmed.
In a press release issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR), it was stated that the PT-6 training plane crashed, but the pilots were safe.
Kahalu Police Station OC Mahmud Hasan confirmed the matter and said that, according to locals, the green-coloured plane suddenly crashed into the ground, breaking through the trees. Within minutes, a crowd of curious people gathered there.
Quoting eyewitnesses, Abdul Jalil, chairman of Muril Union Parishad in Kahalu upazila of Bogura, said that a training plane from the Bangladesh Air Force's Flying Instructor School (Airfield) located about 2 kilometres away started circling while coming from the south to the north at around 1:30 pm on Sunday.
Then it fell on the bamboo grove adjacent to the houses of Shahjahan and Sajur in Shimulia village. The plane fell in such a way that its front part, i.e. the engine, hit the ground and was mangled, and the rear side got stuck in the bamboo grove.
Abdul Jalil said that immediately after the accident, local people went to the scene and rescued the two pilots from the plane in an unharmed condition. However, in the incident, Shahjahan's 8-year-old son Shahed was slightly injured.
He said that later, after receiving the news, Bangladesh Air Force officials, police and fire service officials rushed to the scene.
A plane of the same model had made an emergency landing in a potato field near the airfield on the morning of November 29 last year. The pilots were also unharmed in that accident almost a year ago.
