DHAKA, May 10, 2019 (BSS) – Biman Bangladesh airlines today sent an aircraft to Myanmar to bring back its injured passengers and crews of the flight BG-060 that skidded off runway at Yangon International airport on Wednesday evening.
“The special flight took off Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Yangon at 4 pm today and it will be back here tonight carrying our injured passengers and crews,” Biman’s spokesperson Shakil Meraj told BSS.
He said so far, four Bangladeshi injured nationals, currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Yangon, showed their interests to come back here.
“Apart from the four passengers, 2 pilots, 2 cabin crews and 2 ground engineers of that ill-fated aircraft will also be back on boarding today’s special flight tonight,” Meraj, General Manager (PR) of the national flag carrier said.
He said the special flight will depart for Dhaka from Yangon tonight as soon as all official formalities at hospitals and the airport there are completed.
The flight BG-060 from Dhaka, operated by Dash-8 Q 400 aircraft suffered an overrun incident on landing amid rough weather at approximately 6:22 pm local time at Yangon airport on Wednesday, wounding 19 including one infant and six women out of 35 passengers and crews.
Apart from two pilots, two cabin crews and two ground engineers, there were 29 passengers, including one infant, from Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, China, Denmark, France, Britain and Canada, the official sources said.
After the accident 19 passengers including pilots and crews got admitted with minor injuries at the hospitals there while four of them are already released.
The Biman’s leased Dash-8Q aircraft, the same modeled aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines that suffered a deadly crashed at Kathmandu last year, sustained severe damaged due to the accident.
Biman formed a six-member probe committee on Thursday headed by the airlines chief of flight safety Captain Shoeb Chowdhury to investigate the incident.
Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) has decided to send its Aircraft Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) Head Captain Salahuddin M Rahmatullah to Yangon for helping Myanmar authority in investigating the Biman’s aircraft crash landing incident.
“I will leave for Yangon on Saturday and other experts will follow me later,” said, Capt Saluddin, who had represented Bangladesh in the accident investigation body of Nepal after the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu.
He said there will be four to five members Bangladesh expert team, led by him, to work in Yangon.
As per Annex 13 of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), one accredited representative from the airlines host country will conduct the investigation jointly with the probe team of the country witnessed accident.
Meraj said Biman is providing assistance to the passengers in Yangon. “Families of passengers on board flight BG-060 are requested to contact us on the following emergency response numbers for further assistance +88028901530,” he added.