Staff Reporter :
Just after two weeks of the US-Bangla Airlines disastrous plane crash in Nepal that killed 49 passengers, a Malaysia-bound flight of the said Airlines returned to the airport to alert any possible tragic incident on Saturday.
The flight carrying 164 passengers took off from HSIA for Malaysia at 8:45 am on Saturday, but it came back to the airport within 20 minutes due to technical problem.
The pilot got an alarm signal from the engine and realized that it would not be possible for him to reach Malaysia. He decided to come back to HSIA without loss of time. All the passengers and crew members heaved a sigh of relief when the plane landed at HSIA safely.
The US-Bangla Airlines officials said that a tragic incident could occur had the pilot hesitated to take the decision of cancelling the flight.
Bangla spokesperson Kamrul Islam said that the pilot returned to Dhaka after getting a “false alarm” from the fuel filter bypass of the aircraft. “The pilot came back as he didn’t want to take any risk,” he said.
The flight however left Dhaka again for Malaysia around 11:45am after fresh check-up.
The Director of Civil Aviation Authority (Flight Safety and Regulation) Wing Commander Chowdhury M Ziaul Kabir said, “This is not an emergency landing. The aircraft had to land because the fuel filter bypass warning light was flashing.”
Earlier on March 20, a domestic flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made emergency landing at HSIA for its technical problem.
On March 12 last, at least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals, were killed as a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of Himalayan country of Nepal on March 12.
Besides, a Jessore-bound US-Bangla Airlines flight also made a safe emergency landing in Dhaka due to signal imbalance after take-off on March 4.
