Nigeria, July 23 -- A female Nigerian pilot offers sobering insight into the military jet crash in Bangladesh that has killed over 30 and left 171, mostly children with severe burns.

The Bangladeshi Air Force training jet crashed into Milestone School and College in the Diabari area of Dhaka on Monday, killing over 30 people, most of them children and injuring more than 170 others, according to the Bangladesh Armed Forces and Health Ministry.

The aircraft, an F-7 fighter jet, had taken off from BAF Base AK Khandaker in Dhaka for a routine training flight just after 1:00 p.m. local time. Within 18 minutes, it developed a mechanical fault and crashed into a two-storey school building at around 1:18 p.m., as confirmed by a statement from ...