Birshreshtha Matiur Rahman (Birshreshtha Matiur Rahman) was born on October 29, 1941 at Mubarak Lodge in Old Dhaka. His ancestral home is Ramnagar village of Raipura upazila of Narsingdi, now known as Matinagar. Matiur Rahman was the 6th among 9 brothers and 2 sisters. His father name is Maulvi Abdus Samad and mother Syeda Mobarkunnesa Khatun. After completing his fifth standard from Dhaka Collegiate School, he successfully passed first division in matric examination with distinction from Pakistan Air Force Public School.
In 1963, he was commissioned as a pilot officer from Risalpur PAF College and posted as a General Duty Pilot in No. 2 Squadron of Mauripur Air Base, Karachi. After successfully passing various Air Force examinations, he was posted in Peshawar. In 1967, Matiur Rahman was promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant and in 1970 was appointed Jet Flying Instructor.
In January 1971, Matiur Rahman came to Dhaka with his family for a holiday. When the war started after 25 March, Matiur Rahman opened a training camp in Bhairab and began to train the Bengalis in war. He formed a resistance force with freedom fighters. When the Pakistani forces attacked Bhairav, Bengal regiments with the EPR resisted stoutly. He came to Dhaka on April 23 and returned to his workplace in Karachi on May 9 with his family and planned to seize the militant aircraft and use it in the liberation war. On August 20, the plane crashed just 35 miles from the Indian border while hijacked. Birshrestha Matiur Rahman was killed because there was no parachute. His body was found about half a mile away from the scene.
The Pakistani government buried Matiur Rahman in the Class IV cemetery at Masroor Air Base, Karachi. On June 24, 2006, the remains of Birshrestha Matiur Rahman were brought from Pakistan to Bangladesh and reburied in Mirpur, Dhaka, with full state honors.
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