Aircraft crashes in Bangla river, pilot instructor missing
'The small aircraft was seen whirling and soon it fell down and disappeared in the water.'A trainer aircraft crashed in a major river in northwestern Bangladesh, injuring a trainee pilot while leaving his instructor missing.
The flying club aircraft crashed into the Jamuna river at around 11:40 hours this morning, officials said.
Search is on for the missing instructor while his injured trainee colleague was shifted to Dhaka in a helicopter after being given initial treatment at a local facility, a police official in northwestern Sirajganj said.
The police chief of the district, Mosharraf Hossain, said as fire force divers were engaged in rescue work, soldiers from a nearby cantonment were also called in to carry out the salvage campaign along the vast river and its remote charlands or shoal.
Officials and local journalists said the C-152 craft of the Bangladesh Flying Academy crashed after being hit by a tree at Dattakandi village.
"The small aircraft was seen whirling and soon it fell down and disappeared in the water," a local journalist said quoting witnesses.
The witnesses said the steering or navigation wheel and a wheel of the plane, two pairs of boots and two bags were seen floating in the vicinity minutes later.
But officials said the divers could not track down the craft and the missing pilot even under a 50 meter depth.
Police said the trainee pilot was in an unconscious state when the villagers rescued him from the river.
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