The BSF yesterday took the decision to compensate the victims, said Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR).

"The BSF will form a board to estimate the damage and compensate the victims in no time," ISPR Director Lt Col Nazrul Islam told The Daily Star last night. The BAF had also compensated for its earlier crashes.

Meanwhile, BAF officials yesterday started recovering the wreckage of the F-7 MB aircraft nosedived on a house at Fayedabad in the city.

A BAF maintenance team reached the spot yesterday morning and began the recovery operation, which will take a few days, an official said.

The four-member probe committee visited the spot yesterday, said the ISPR. Preliminary findings say the plane crashed due to 'mechanical faults', but the team is still working to learn about details.

The ISPR said the conditions of Asma Khondokar and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Tua are improving at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

But the condition of Rousan Ara, one of the five tenants on whom the plane crashed and who suffered burns, deteriorated at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.