15/06/2020
Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji'un
One of the greatest Bangladeshi fighter pilots of all time, Saiful Azam, has died at a hospital in Dhaka.
In April, 1961, Azam, after his training in the US, was awarded “Top Gun” by the United States Air Force (USAF) at the Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.
He was honoured by the USAF as one of the 22 'Living Eagles' of the world
He is also the only pilot to have destroyed fighter planes of two different air forces – India and Israel – during the 1965 Indo-Pak war and the Third Arab-Israeli War, also known as the “The Six-Day War” in 1967.
Azam holds the record for shooting down more Israeli aircraft than anyone else till date – a total of three – and in 2001 he again was honoured by the USAF as one of the 22 “Living Eagles” of the world.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/06/14/legendary-fighter-pilot-saiful-azam-dies-at-80