No. 47 Squadron RAF Army support role. The Squadron moved to RAF Disforth in September 1948, where it became the first RAF Squadron to receive the Handley Page Hastings four-engined transport. The conversion process was rushed as the aircraft were needed to support the Berlin Airlift, with the Squadron moving to Schleswigland, near Kiel in West Germany on 1 November 1948. The aircraft was mainly used to carry coal, carrying out 3,000 trips to Berlin and carrying 22,000 tons of supplies. When the blockade ended the Squadron returned to the United Kingdom, moving to RAF Topcliffe on 22 August 1949, operating in support of
Barapukuria coal scam 10.17 million tons of coal. On July 16 of 2018, Abu Sayeed, a board member of Bangladesh Power Development Board, went to Barapukuria in an official visit where he cross checked the documents of mining and supplying from the coal mine since 2001. The official documents of the mine say at least 10.17 million tons of coal were extracted from the mine, around 6.69 million of which were supplied to the power plant, 3.32 million tons to various industries and 12,000 tons was used for the project’s own needs. That adds up to around 10.02 million tons. The official documents