Milestone teacher recalls pilot crashing through roof

NN Online:

A heavy silence hung over Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka, on Tuesday. Tears flowed for lost classmates, while teachers stood in mourning for their colleagues, still shaken by the tragic plane crash a day earlier.

Among the survivors was Nasiruddin, a physical education teacher at the school, who recounted the terrifying moments when a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into the campus on Monday. Speaking to BBC Bangla, he recalled seeing his students engulfed in flames.

“There was a deafening noise,” Nasiruddin said. “I rushed out of my room and saw part of the building had collapsed. People were screaming ‘fire, fire.’ As I reached the crash site, the fire had just begun, but it grew more intense by the minute.”

He noted that the fire service, army, and air force personnel arrived shortly after the impact.

“We kept throwing water to douse the flames, but the fire wouldn’t stop. Then I heard desperate voices—my students crying out, ‘Sir, save us,’” he recounted with emotion.

Working with others, Nasiruddin broke through a metal grill and managed to rescue 12 to 13 people. “About half an hour later, I returned to my department. That’s when my peon told me—our entire department had collapsed,” he said.

The crash left a scene of devastation that continues to haunt survivors, as the community grapples with the scale of the tragedy.