Pilot killed as Bangladesh Air Force trainer crashes

Dhaka, April 9 (CNST/IANS): A pilot was killed and his colleague suffered minor
injuries after a training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed in
the countrys Tangail district Sunday afternoon.

Nurul Islam of the Inter-Services Public Relations of the Bangladesh Army
told Xinhua that the L-39 trainer crashed in a village some 90 km northwest
of capital Dhaka, at 12.27 p.m.

Pilot officer Shariful Haque succumbed to death at a military hospital
where he was air-lifted with critical injuries, said a police official,
adding the other pilot Squadron Leader Mamunur Rashid sustained minor
injuries.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known.