Dhaka, July 27 -- The tragic crash of a military jet at Milestone School and College in Uttara, which claimed at least 33 lives and injured over 150, is not merely an accident - it is the outcome of years of systemic negligence and regulatory failure.
The preliminary report by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) has made it clear that this catastrophe was foreseeable, given the school's location directly within the airport's 13,000-foot approach corridor, an area that should never have been approved for high-density development.
International aviation standards strictly prohibit the construction of crowd-gathering institutions in critical approach and obstacle limitation zones.
Yet, according to a report published in this newspape...