'Top Gun' stunt ends in tragedy as fighter jet bounces off runway

A 'Top Gun' stunt has ended in tragedy after a fighter jet bounced off the runway following a low-altitude triple barrel-roll.

But a fire had already broken out in the rear of the jet and Bangladesh Air Force pilot Jawad and his co-pilot Wing Commander Sohan Hasan Khan both ejected. Pilot Muhammad Asim Jawad, 32, appeared to be attempting a Top Gun-like stunt with three aileron rolls at low altitude when the fuselage of his Yakovlev Yak-130 scraped along the tarmac Both pilots reportedly landed in the Karnaphuli River and were rescued alive by members of the air force, navy and local fishermen, but Jawad later died in hospital, while Khan remains in critical condition

They claimed the pilots manoeuvred the aircraft away from the densely populated area near the airport to the sparsely populated area where they crashed.A source said: 'The Bangladesh Air Force claimed the crashed YAK 130 fighter jet encountered mechanical failure, resulting in a catastrophic crash in the Patenga area of Chittagong.

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