(21 Jul 2025)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 21 July 2025
1. Wide of rescue team preparing rope to pull wreckage
2. Mid of rescue team preparing rope to pull wreckage, pan to official telling people on megaphone to move back
3. Wide of crane and rescue team at crash site
4. Mid of rescue team at crash site
5. Mid of wreckage
6. Various of rescue team standing next to crane at crash site
7. Various of part of wreckage being pulled by crane
8. Various of rescue team at site
9. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Jewel (no surname given), father of a student:
"The plane crashed in the building where my daughter was. My wife called me but I was praying so I could not pick up. After finishing payers, I called her and she said crying that a plane has crashed into a building where my (inaudible) daughter’s class is. I did not know what to do and then left (for the school), and when I came here I saw there was a huge fire. There was a dead body of a child."
10. Various of crane clearing wreckage, rescue officials and army gathered
11. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Jewel (no surname given), father of a student:
"I could not get any news of my daughter. But after about 20 minutes, she called me and told me that she is fine, don’t be tense. My daughter went (from the school) to her friend’s home with her mother. In the meantime, I saw many injured (people), skin peeling off the injured."
12. Ambulance carrying the injured driving away
13. Various of crowd gathered near crash site
14. Army personnel on megaphone telling people to clear the area
15. Various of crowd and army personnel moving towards crash site
STORYLINE:
A rescue team was seen at the crash site after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday.
The crash killed at least 19 people including the pilot and injuring more than 100, officials said.
According to the military and a fire official, the Chinese-made F-7 BGI aircraft crashed into the campus of Milestone School and College, in the Uttara neighborhood, in the afternoon as students were attending classes.
The Fire Service and Civil Defense said that at least 19 people, mostly students, died and another 116 were rescued with injuries.
A significant number sustained burn injuries.
The government announced a national day of mourning on Tuesday, with flags to fly at half-staff across the country.
The military said the jet took off from Bangladesh Air Force Base A.K. Khandaker in Dhaka’s Kurmitola neighborhood at 1:06 p.m. local time and crashed soon after, catching fire immediately.
It said the aircraft “experienced a technical malfunction,” but that a high-level committee within the Air Force would conduct an investigation to determine the cause.
Flight Lieutenant Md. Toukir Islam, made "every effort to divert the aircraft away from densely populated areas toward a more sparsely inhabited location," the military said. "Unfortunately, the aircraft crashed into a two-story building" within the school.
It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.
Local media indicated most of the injured were students.
A father who was looking for his daughter rushed to the school on hearing the news of the crash.
"When I came here I saw there was a huge fire. There was a dead body of a child," said the man who only went by the name Jewel. "I could not get any news of my daughter. But after about 20 minutes, she called me and told me that she is fine."
A desperate scene unfolded as the crash occurred.
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