BSS-32 US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing at Chattogram airport

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US-Bangla flight makes emergency landing at Chattogram airport

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 26, 2018 (BSS) – A Cox’s Bazar-bound US-Bangla flight
carrying 171 passengers and crews made an emergency landing at Chattogram Shah Amanat
International Airport (CSAIA) this afternoon.

Quamrul Islam, General Manager of US-Bangla Airlines said a flight of US-
Bangla Airlines- BS-141, took off from the Dhaka airport at 11:30am. As a
technical glitch developed, the flight made an emergency landing at Shah
Amanat International Airport as there was no facility of making emergency
landing at Cox’s Bazar Airport.

All 153 adult passengers and 11 children, two pilots and five crews are safe
and sound, he added.

However, flight operations to and from airport remained suspended till
filling of this report at 4.30 pm, airport manager Sarwar-e-Zaman, told BSS.

The authorities of US-Bangla have taken steps to reach all the ill-fated
flight passengers by a special bus by road, Zaman, added.

He said, a special Boeing-737 engineering corps is expected to reach CSAIA
to remove the incident prone US-Bangla aircraft.

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