Family members is likely to file a case against the Bangladesh Flying Academy over the death of Tamanna Rahman Hridi, a female trainee pilot who died on April 1 after an aircraft of Bangladesh Flying Academy and General Aviation Limited crashed on the runway and caught fire while making an emergency landing at Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi.
The family members of Tamanna alleged that she had died due to negligence of flying academy.
They made the allegation at a press briefing held at a restaurant in Rajshahi city yesterday afternoon.
Rehana Yeasmin, mother of Tamanna, read out a written statement at the press conference where Dr Anisur Rahman, father of the deceased, was also present.
Rehana Yeasmin said they would file a case against the flying academy soon after collecting all necessary evidences.
Dr Anisur said: “We have already got different evidence of negligence about conducting training of Bangladesh Flying Academy which caused the death of Tamanna.”
The written statement said that as per international rules, all flying academy and civil aviation should have 24 hours fire service team, rescue team and ambulance service at the runway so that services could be rendered within 2 minutes if any untoward incident takes place but there was no such type of services at Rajshahi Shah Makhdum Airport.
The statement alleged that soon after the incident the local peoples came forward but firefighting team came after 21 minutes. In the meantime, Tamanna was burnt to death.
Mother of Tamanna informed that Bangladesh Flying Academy running its training programme with the 3 decade-old aircraft (Sesna-152). The seat belt of the aircraft was not working properly and for this reason trainer could not manage to get out of the aircraft soon after it catches fire.
They also alleged that Moniruzzaman Rumi, the chief engineer of Bangladesh Flying Academy, has been given responsibility without any certificate regarding his competency. They also claimed that Rumi was a fake engineer.