UNB, Dhaka ;
Stranded passengers of the Biman Bangladesh flight which made an emergency landing at Nagpur International Airport in Maharashtra on Friday after its pilot suffered a heart attack mid-air have finally landed at Dhaka.
A flight of the national flag carrier, BG-022, left Nagpur Airport at around 10:25pm (Indian local time) carrying 124 passengers and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 12:51 am (Bangladesh Time).
Deputy General Manager (public relations) Tahera Khandaker of Biman Bangladesh has confirmed the information to UNB.
Earlier, a Dhaka-bound Biman Bangladesh passenger flight made an emergency landing at an airport in India Friday after its pilot suffered a heart attack mid-air, officials said.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737-8, was carrying 124 passengers from Muscat.
An aviation official told the media the plane was near the central state of Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur when its co-pilot contacted the air traffic controller in the eastern city of Kolkata for an emergency landing.
“The Kolkata ATC, in turn, asked the co-pilot to land at the nearest airport. Around 11.40 am, the passenger plane safely landed at Nagpur airport in the western state of Maharashtra,” the official told the media.
