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1957 A Macdonald Douglas-built DC-3 aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crashed in Charlakhi Island in the Bay of Bengal, killing all the 20 passengers and four crew. Google | 1966 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled domestic flight from Dacca to Faridpur in East Pakistan operated by a Sikorsky S-61 twin-engined helicopter. The Pakistan International Airlines helicopter crashed near Fardipur because of a mechanical failure due to insufficient lubrication. Twenty passengers and three crew died, there was just one survivor. Google | 1970 A Cargolux, Canada Air CL-44J flight crashed into a farmhouse near Dhaka airport while taking off killing all four crew on board and three people on the ground. Google | 1979 Four crewmembers of a Fokker F-27 flight escaped unhurt when it crash-landed in a field near Savar Bazar during a test flight. The accident occurred as both engines of the aircraft caught fire while landing from an altitude of 8000 feet. Google | 1984 A Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 aircraft of the national flag carrier crashed killing 49 people on board, the highest number of casualties so far in a single plane crash. The aircraft fell into a water body, 550 metres off the runway. Google | 1998 An Air Parabat flight from Ishwardi airport crash-landed on its belly in a field near Savar due to some problems in the two-engine Walter M-601E plane. Five crew and two passengers on board escaped unhurt. Google | 1998 Parabat Airlines (L 401) crashed when its captain made an emergency landing on a jute field at Savar. Google | 1998 A training plane of Parabat Airlines crashed at Postogola in Dhaka due to technical fault leaving its pilot Faria Lara and co-pilot Rafiqul dead. Google | 1998 Two trainee pilots died when a Cessna C-150 training flight of Parabat's flying academy crashed. Google | 2005 An Airbus with 220 passengers including nine children on board narrowly averted an accident just before take-off from the Sylhet airport. Detecting a mechanical fault, the pilot immediately aborted the take-off. Google | 2018 A Bangladeshi aircraft operated by the US-Bangla Airlines crashed with 71 people on board in Kathmandu killing 49, including 26 Bangladeshis. Google | 2025 An F-7 BGI training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashes into Milestone College in Uttara, Dhaka, killing 32 people including the pilot and injuring 171 others. Google |