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Hotline for info on plane crash victims

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Published: 16:18, 12 March 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Hotline for info on plane crash victims

Risingbd Desk: US-Bangla Airlines has launched a hotline number to enquire about the passengers who were in the aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal on Monday afternoon.

The relatives of the plane crash victims can dial the hotline number — 01777777766 — to enquire about those who were in the crashed aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines.

The 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft took off from Dhaka with 71 people on board on Monday.

It shot off the runway while it was about to crash into a fence of the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu and immediately caught fire around 2:20pm local time.

Of the 71 people on board, 33 of the passengers were Nepali, 32 were Bangladeshi, one was Chinese and one from the Malaysia. Besides, there were four crew members in the aircraft.


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