A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft safely landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Dhaka without one of its wheels, as the wheel came off from the Dhaka-bound airliner shortly after it took off from the Cox鈥檚 Bazar airport.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines general manager for public relations ABM Rawshan Kabir told 抖阴精品 on Friday afternoon that the flight took off from the Cox鈥檚 Bazar airport at about 1:20pm and one of its wheels of the landing gear got detached due to technical glitches after it took off.
鈥楾he plane safely landed at the Dhaka Airport at about 2:20pm after it flew the distance,鈥� he said, adding that all the 71 passengers, including an infant, aboard the flight were safe.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a press release in the afternoon said that the state-run airlines authorities formed a committee, headed by its chief of flight safety captain Enam Talukder, to probe the incident.
The release said that passengers expressed gratitude to the pilot, crew members and the airlines authorities for ensuring the arrangement for the plane鈥檚 emergency landing.聽
Cox鈥檚 Bazar Airport director Golam Mortaza Hossain said that one of the wheels of the BG-436 flight came off at about 1:21pm after the plane鈥檚 take-off from the runway.
According to Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh officials, all measures needed for the emergency landing, including arranging fire fighters, were duly taken at the HSIA in Dhaka.
