Jet Crash Horror: Chaos Erupts as Fighter Plane Hits Bangladesh Primary Schoo

🔥 “It Was Like Thunder Falling From the Sky” — Chaos and Courage as Fighter Jet Crashes Into Bangladesh School By BBC News — Reporting from Dhaka, Bangladesh “It felt like 30 or 40 thunderbolts falling from the sky,” said 18-year-old Ahnaf Bin Hasan, his voice still shaking two days after witnessing a disaster that would change his life forever. Ahnaf was standing just 30 feet from the impact zone when a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 fighter jet nosedived into the primary section of Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s Uttara neighborhood. “I’ve never heard anything like it,” he recalled. “In a split second, the jet flew right over my head and crashed into the building. I hit the ground and covered my head. When I opened my eyes—everything was on fire. Smoke. Screaming. It was chaos.” The crash on Monday became Bangladesh’s deadliest aviation disaster in decades, killing at least 31 people, many of them schoolchildren under the age of 12. Some had been waiting for pickup, some were heading to after-school coaching, and others were simply grabbing a snack. 🔥 A Normal Day Turned Nightmare Ahnaf, dressed in his chocolate brown shirt and black trousers, was chatting with a friend on the school’s 12-acre playground when the aircraft came down. A flaming shard from the wreckage scorched his hand and set his backpack on fire. “But I threw it aside,” he said. “And I ran toward the school.” The fighter jet had smashed through the front gate, dug six to seven feet into the ground, then launched into the air again before slamming into the first floor—directly into two classrooms called Cloud and Sky. A massive explosion followed. Ahnaf ran toward the smoke and screams. One boy’s body lay torn near the gate. “He must have been hit directly by the jet,” Ahnaf said. “He looked younger than us.” 🧒🏽 Students Burned, Screaming — and Acts of Heroism Inside, children fled the building, their clothes burned off, their skin blistered. Some were screaming from windows on the second floor. One woman was on fire. Others, too dazed to cry, simply walked through the smoke. Ahnaf spotted a younger student, badly burned and carried by a friend. “He said, ‘I can’t do this alone, can you help me?’ So I carried the boy on my shoulder to the medical room.” He broke open gates, cleared paths for ambulances, and even gave the shirt off his back to another boy whose clothes had burned away. “I continued bare-bodied with the rescue,” he said. 💔 Loss Beyond Words Among the victims was 11-year-old Wakia Firdous Nidhi, the youngest of three siblings. That morning had started like any other—she walked to school with her usual smile. When the crash happened, her father ran barefoot from the mosque. The family searched through the night, visiting multiple hospitals, until her father identified her—by her teeth and a problem in her eye. But bureaucracy made the heartbreak worse. Despite the clear identification, authorities refused to release the body until DNA results confirmed it. “We know it’s her,” said her uncle, Syed Billal Hossain. “But they still won’t give us the body.” Wakia grew up in the family’s ancestral home in Diabari. “She was always laughing, always playing with her niece,” her uncle said, barely holding back tears. “If not for that coaching class, she’d still be here.” ✨ Near Misses and Random Survival One mother, her voice trembling, told BBC Bengali she had given her son money to buy food instead of packing tiffin that day. During break, he stepped out to buy a snack—and survived. “He’s alive because I didn’t pack his lunch,” she said. But another father lived through unimaginable tragedy. His daughter died in the crash. After her funeral, he returned to the hospital to find that his son, too, had succumbed to injuries. 🛩️ What Caused the Crash? The Bangladesh Air Force reported that the F-7 was on a training flight when it suffered a mechanical failure shortly after takeoff. The pilot ejected moments before the crash but later died in hospital. “I saw his parachute,” said Ahnaf. “He landed through the tin roof of another building. I heard he asked for water before they airlifted him.” 🕯️ A School Silenced Milestone School and College—once full of laughter, lessons, and life—is now a scene of devastation. Twisted metal, blackened walls, and grief hang heavy in the air. For students like Ahnaf, the trauma will take years to fade. “The screams… they’re still in my ears,” he said.