Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib escapes helicopter crash
September 17, 2016 02:53 pm
One person was killed while four others sustained injuries after a helicopter crashed in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, one of the world’s largest natural sandy sea beaches on Friday.
Bangladeshi star cricketer Shakib Al Hasan and his wife Umme Ahmed Shishir who flew to Cox’s Bazar for a TV commercial shoot, escaped the crash that occurred after they landed at their destination, some 292 km southeast of the capital Dhaka.
After Shakib and his wife made safe landing, the chopper of local Meghna Aviation Company again took off with five people including its pilot and crashed in Cox’s Bazar’s Inani sea beach.
“An advertisement agency official died while four others including the pilot were injured in the crash,” Abdul Malek, deputy assistant director of Cox’s Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defence, told journalists.
He said it was not immediately clear what caused the accident.
Weather conditions were reported to be normal at the time.
According to the official, the Robinson R66, a turbine-powered chopper designed and built by the U.S. helicopter company, plunged into shallow water but it surfaced when the water receded during ebb tide.
Source: Xinhua
