The Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed on the school campus, killing 19 people

At least 19 people were killed and 164 injured as an Air Force training jet of Bangladesh collapsed in a university and school campus in the capital Dhaka on Monday after having encountered a technical problem shortly after takeoff, said a military spokesman.

The F-7 BGI Jet took off at 1:06 p.m. from the Bangladesh Air Force base in Kurmitola, Dhaka, as part of a routine training mission, but met a mechanical failure, said spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury.

“The pilot … made a valiant attempt to divert the plane from the densely populated areas. Despite his best efforts, the plane … crashed in a two-story building belonging to the Milestone school and college,” he said.

The pilot was one of the people killed in the incident, said the army, adding that a committee had been trained to investigate his cause.

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Firefighters and soldiers work next to the wreckage of an Air Force training plane after he crashed on Milestone College Campus, in Dacca, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2025. (Stringer / Reuters)

The F-7 BGI is the final and the most advanced variant in the family of Chengdu J-7 / F-7 aircraft in China, according to the Jane Information Group. Bangladesh signed a contract for 16 planes in 2011 and deliveries were completed by 2013.

The Chengdu F-7 is the version designed by license of the Soviet Mig-21.

Videos of the consequences of the accident showed a big shot near a lawn emitting a thick plume of smoke in the sky, while the crowds looked at a distance.

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Firefighters and army members carry the body of a victim after an Air Force training plane crashed on Milestone College Campus, in Dacca, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2025. (Stringer / Reuters)

The firefighters sprayed water on the mutilated remains of the plane, which seemed to have struck the side of a building, damaging the iron grids and creating a gaping hole in the structure, showed images filmed by Reuters.

“A third year student was brought dead and three others, aged 12, 14 and 40, were admitted to the hospital,” said Bidhan Sarker, chief of the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Burn Unit, where some victims were taken.

Images of the scene also showed that people were screaming and crying while others were trying to comfort them.

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An ambulance passes near the wreckage where an Air Force training plane crashed on Milestone College Campus, in Dacca, Bangladesh, on July 21, 2025. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters)

“When I picked up (my children) and I went to the door, I realized that something came from behind … I heard an explosion. When I looked back, I only saw fire and smoke,” said Masud Tarik, teacher at school.

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The incident occurs a little more than a month after an India airplane crashed over a medical college inn in the city of Ahmedabad in neighboring India, killing 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, marking the worst aviation catastrophe of the world in a decade.

Reuters contributed to this report.