Mumtaz Uddin Ahmed was a

Bangladesh Air Force The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) () is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh Army a ...

officer who served as chief of air staff from 1987 to 1991.

Career

Ahmed became the chief of air staff on 23 July 1987. It was on his watch that the April 1991 Bangladesh cyclone badly damaged 44 Bangladeshi military planes and helicopters. The leader of the opposition,

Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina (''née'' Wazed; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. Premiership of Sheikh Hasina, Her ...

, blamed the government for failing to take measures in advance to protect the craft. After an inquiry, President

Shahabuddin Ahmed Shahabuddin Ahmed (1 February 1930 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi head of state who served as the president of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001, and the Chief Justice of Bangladesh, chief justice of Bangladesh from 1990 to 1995 ...

dismissed Mumtaz Uddin Ahmed on 4 June 1991. The president appointed Air Commodore Altaf Hossain Chowdhury to replace him.

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