Last Monday, Bangladesh called its icon of its air force, and one of its most prominent founders, Saifullah Al-Azam, at the age of eighty, during his delicate surgery. , With which he was associated for a period of time, before the independence of Bangladesh was proclaimed in 1971.
The Bengali newspaper "Daily Star" said that the flight of the military pilot, the greatest sword of God, nicknamed "the living eagle", included working in the air force in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, and he trained for a short period in the United States of America.
Saif Allah has gained the greatest Arab special attention, and Arab intellectuals called him in newspapers and networking sites, where he joined in the Jordanian Air Force in November 1966, flew a Hawker Hunter plane and fought clashes with the Israeli Air Force, and was able to shoot down a "Dassault Mister" belonging to Israel in June 1967, He was also able to shoot down two more Israeli Air Force aircraft, "Futur" and "Dassault Mirage" after joining the Iraqi Air Force, according to identical accounts in the Bengali press.
Saifullah Al-Azam returned to Bangladesh after its independence, to establish with the Bangladeshi Air Force, and he initially assumed "Safety and Air Operations Management", then left the Air Force to take over the administration of the Civil Aviation Authority from 1988 to 1988, and then retired from the official domain after that completely. Then, he can devote himself to private work. In the early nineties he entered politics, becoming a prominent member of Parliament since 1991.
Saifullah Al-Azam won the "Medal of Courage" from the Pakistan Air Force in 1965, and the Medal of Independence "from the Royal Jordanian Air Force, as the United States honored him as one of the list of" living eagles "that included 22 other distinguished combat pilots in the world.
It was held for the greatest military funeral attended by the commander of the Bangladesh Air Force and the leaders of the military branches, where he was buried in the cemeteries of Shaheen, and the Bengali newspaper "Daily Sun" in her obituary, described him as one of the great personalities in the country.
The Greatest Sword of God was awarded the "Medal of Courage" from the Pakistan Air Force in 1965, and the "Independence" Medal from the Jordanian Royal Air Force, as honored by the United States as one of the "Living Eagles" list.