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US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing at Dhaka Airport

| Updated: March 25, 2018 10:29:14


US-Bangla plane makes emergency landing

A flight of US-Bangla Airlines has made an emergency landing at at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka city.

It happened on Saturday barely two weeks into the plane crash of the same airlines in the Himalayan country of Nepal.

US-Bangla Airlines GM (Marketing Support and PR) Kamrul Islam said a Malaysia-bound flight with 164 passengers on board took off from the airport around 9:00 am.

It came back and landed at 9:15 am. Then the flight was taken through check-up and found all right, meaning that the pilot had received a 'false indication' from the aircraft.

The flight again, Islam said, took off from the airport for Malaysia around 11:45 am. 

Earlier on March 12, at least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals, died as a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12.

Besides, a Jessore-bound US-Bangla Airlines flight made a safe emergency landing in Dhaka due to signal imbalance after take-off on March 4.

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