Rough weather in the Bay of Bengal is hindering the search for Flight Lieutenant Tahmid Rumman of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF).
The search operation has been going on for more than 72 hours, since Tahmid’s aircraft, a F-7MB 416 fighter jet, crashed into the sea near Chittagong Port’s Outer Anchorage area, around six nautical miles off Patenga beach, on Monday morning.
Bangladesh Coast Guard, Bangladesh Navy, the maritime authority and Chittagong Port Authority joined the BAF in search of Tahmid, but they have had no luck in finding him.
The search party has not been able to trace the remains of the aircraft either, save for some broken parts of the jet’s wings which were seen floating at the crash site on Monday.
Bangladesh Coast Guard Ship Tawfiq, which had been part of the rescue mission from the start, returned to the coast guard base yesterday and CGS Tanveer joined the search party in its place, said Captain Shahidul Islam, east zone commander of the coast guard.
