Dhaka, July 29 -- The Bangladesh Air Force has defended the presence of its fighter jet base in Dhaka, describing it as essential to the country's air defence strategy and consistent with global practices of maintaining military aviation facilities in capital cities.
This clarification comes in response to growing public concern following the fatal crash of an F-7BGI fighter jet into Milestone School and College in the city's Diabari area on 21 July.
The tragedy claimed 34 lives, most of them schoolchildren, making it one of the deadliest aviation incidents in the nation's military history.
Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Air Commodore Mohammad Sahidul Islam, Director of Air Operations, emphasised Dhaka's strategic significance, ...