Air force plane crash
A citizen On e-mail
On 24 April a young trainee air force pilot died in a plane crash due to technical faults. He had a family just like anyone of us, his parents sent him to the air force, to bear the responsibility of safeguarding this nation. Lives of such people are precious not only to their families but also to us; the general people are safe for the sacrifices made by such people of the armed forces. It is however the responsibility of the higher authorities to ensure the safety of such pilots and take all measures to minimise the risks that they are exposed to. Technical faults cannot just be a good enough explanation for their deaths. The plane that pilot Taniul was flying was a PT 6, can anyone answer how old these planes are? I am more than certain they were bought long before I was born, that is more than two decades back. Then comes the question of whether a poor country like Bangladesh can afford new planes or not, well of course it can, recently I learnt that the air force bought some VIP helicopters. I would surely like to know how the VIP helicopters are different from the regular ones, do they have thrones installed in them without which the VIPs cannot travel? What is more important, the luxury of the VIPs or the safety of pilots ? It is even more disappointing that the incident of pilot Taniul's crash happened on the same day that the country got to read in the papers about how the air force has claimed the discrepancies of the prices paid for the newly purchased aircrafts to be mere errors. Errors?!! In the largest purchase of the air force in recent times? How credible is it? There can be one and only one price for something we buy, and not many different ones that can be used at convenience of the authorities.
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