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Technical glitch causes emergency landing to Biman flight

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Published: 10:58, 20 March 2018   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Technical glitch causes emergency landing to Biman flight

Staff Correspondent: A domestic flight of national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines bound for Saidpur made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka 18 minutes after it took off from the airport.

The airport’s deputy director Mosharraf Hossain confirmed this to media.

Biman Flight BG493 took off around 12:28pm, but turned back and landed at 12:46pm due to a technical glitch, he said.

Asked if it was an emergency landing, Mosharraf said: “No, we should not term it an emergency landing. There may have been some complications, for which the aircraft returned to the airport.”

The Saidpur bound Dash-8 had 53 passengers on board.

BG493 is also a Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft, the same model of plane that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal last week, where 51 persons including 26 Bangladeshi nationals died during landing.


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