bdnews24.com : Police have arrested seven officials of the Bangladesh Biman two days after a case was started over the glitch that forced a flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to make an emergency landing.
The counter-terrorism unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police made the arrests, Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman told bdnews24.com on Thursday.
He said details of those arrested will be soon released.
Several top officials including engineers at Biman have been suspended over the incident.
A Boeing-777 aircraft carrying the prime minister to Hungary on Nov 27 made emergency landing at Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat airport after a drop in fuel pressure was detected in one of the engines.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waited at the airport’s VIP lounge while the plane was being inspected for faults. The plane ‘Ranga Prabhat’, which had 99 onboard, was in the airport for four hours before it was able to take off to reach Budapest.
A member of the state-owned carrier’s investigation committee, speaking on condition of anonymity, told bdnews24.com that a ‘human error’ caused the glitch.
A nut of the tank storing engine oil or lubricant was loose and the ‘problem was fixed after tightening it’, he said.
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