PM’s flight glitch: 2 suspended Biman officials remanded
Two suspended staff of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were placed on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the technical glitch caused a Biman flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to make an emergency landing in Turkmenistan.
Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain passed the order after Mahbub Alam, inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, produced the duo -- engineer Rokonuzzaman and junior technician Siddiqur Rahman -- before the court.
Mahbub Alam sought 10 days for their remand.
On December 21, Wing Commander (retd) MM Asaduzzaman, director of engineering and material management of Biman, filed the case against nine employees under the Special Powers Act with Airport Police Station.
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Of them, seven were arrested soon after the case was filed. They were placed on remand on December 22.
Rokonuzzaman and Siddiqur surrendered before a Dhaka court and were sent to jail on the same day.
On November 27, a Biman flight carrying the prime minister had to make an emergency landing at the Ashgabat International Airport Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest as engine-1 of the plane was losing oil pressure.
After the emergency landing, engineers found that a nut was loose causing the oil pressure loss.
Biman authorities formed a technical probe committee the following day to find the reason behind the incident. Based on the findings of the probe committee, Biman first suspended six employees and later three others and filed the case against them.
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