Last Monday both Bangladesh and Nepal witnessed some of their citizens perished in deadliest of air crashes in contemporary aviation history in our parts of the world.
Over 50 people including all four crews of an aircraft of US Bangla Airlines met a tragic end of their lives as the 78-seater twin-propeller Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 flying from Dhaka to Kathmanduveered off the runway and crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of Himalayan country of Nepal. Sixty-seven passengers – 33 Nepalese, 32 Bangladeshis and one each of China and the Maldives – were on board the Bangladeshi privately-run plane. Pilot and the other three crew members were all Bangladeshi citizens too. The last time Bangladesh experienced tragic air crash of this magnitude was back in August 1984 when 49 people were killed as a national flag carrier Biman’s domestic flight crashed into a marsh adjacent to then Zia International Airport in Dhaka.
People in both Bangladesh and Nepal were deeply shock by the tragedy that took so many lives – couples on vacation, parents with children and as many as 13 Nepalese students who had just appeared for their final exams of MBBS in one of the Sylhet medical colleges. People are yet to fully recover from the deep shock of losing so many youthful and promising lives in one single aircraft accident. Prime ministers of the two South Asian neighbours exchanged words of consolation and all necessary cooperation right after the incident. Bangladesh’s prime minister, who was on a four-day Singapore visit, cut her official tour short to return home a day early. On board the illfated plane were 13 medical students, 11 of them female, five of a family from Gazipur, and many others in their youth, in their mid-life with lots of hope and aspirations in life, now never to be fulfilled anymore.
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