[4] Although Alam's ancestral home was Char Barai in Singair Upazila of Manikganj District, he grew up in Dhaka.

[2] He was the son of father Khandaker Mohammad Badruddoza and mother Hosne Ara Begum.

[clarification needed] Besides Godnail, he conducted air operations in several other places including Akhaura, Sylhet, and Raipura in Narsingdi.

[5][8] On 3 December 1971, Alam, along with co-pilots Sultan Mahmud and Sahabuddin Ahmed, flew an Alouette helicopter armed with 14 rockets and a machine gun from Dimapur, a hilly area in the Indian state of Nagaland, to strike and destroy a fuel depot of the Pakistan Army situated near Godnail, Narayanganj.

In preparation for an all-out war with India, the Pakistanis stockpiled huge quantities of fuel oil.