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Matiur Rahman (October 29, 1941August 20, 1971) was a flight lieutenant in the Pakistan Air Force and a national hero of Bangladesh. He attempted, in order to escape from Pakistan and join the Bangladesh Liberation War, to hijack a T-33 aircraft (code named "Blue Bird"〔http://bangladeshcontinual.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/bir-sreshtho-matiur-rahman.html〕) being flown by Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas. He nearly reached the Indian border, but the aircraft crashed because Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas prevented the hijacking and forced plane to crash. For his supreme sacrifice for his nation and support to the state of Bangladesh, Rahman was decorated by Bangladesh with the Bir Sreshtho award, which is the highest honour given in the country. Rashid Minhas was awarded Pakistan's highest Military Award Nishan-e-Haider. ==Biography== Matiur Rahman was born on 29 October 1941 in Old Dhaka Aga Sadek Road 109 in his ancestral houses "Mobarok Lodge". His father was Maulvi Abdus Samad and his mother was Syeda Khatun mobarakunnesa. Among nine brothers and two sisters, Rahman was the sixth. His family was a solvent and middle class educated family. Matiur Rahman was very good in sport and other co-curricular activities. He developed a very good team spirit and comradeship from the very school life. He completed his primary education at Dhaka Collegiate School. After that he was admitted into PAF Public School, Sargodha in West Pakistan and there he completed his twelfth class course with distinction marks. In 1963, after completing his twelfth class course, he joined in the Pakistan Air Force Academy.〔 On 22 June, Matiur Rahman was commissioned as a General Duty Pilot and was posted at Risalpur in West Pakistan. After that he successfully completed the Jet Conversion Course in Karachi. He was appointed as a Jet Pilot in Peshawar due to his bright result in the Jet Conversion Course.〔 He was working as a Flying Officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. After the war, he went back to Sargodha to attend the Mig Conversion Course. He was promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant in 1967. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matiur Rahman (military pilot)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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