News Desk :
Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qayyum was buried at Banani Graveyard in the capital on Thursday after Zuhr prayers.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at Biman Bangladesh Airlines office in Kurmitola.
Nawshad was laid to eternal rest beside his mother’s grave.
Earlier, a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the body of the pilot, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 9:15am.
It was flown from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in India’s Nagpur.
The 44-year-old pilot died on August 30 at Kingsway Hospitals in the Indian state of Maharashtra after fighting for life for the last four days as he was in “coma” in the hospital following a brain hemorrhage.
The Dhaka-bound Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Muscat BG 022 made an emergency landing at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur with 124 passengers in the morning of August 27 when Captain Nawshad Qayyum suffered a heart attack in the mid-air.
