US-Bangla Airlines

'Not an accident, just an incident'

“Keeping a cool head during the crisis, we just followed what we were taught and the way we landed is a textbook example in emergency landing,” said Captain Mohammad Zakaria, who was at the helm of the Cox's Bazar bound US-Bangla Airlines flight BS-141 that made emergency landing -- without nose landing gear -- at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on September 26.
Poised pilot saves the day

With no nose landing gear and a crash on the cards, the cockpit crew of a US-Bangla domestic flight to Cox's Bazar kept their cool and landed their Boeing 737 with 171 lives on board in Chattogram yesterday.
'Pilot's Error' in US-Bangla Crash: Nepali probe panel trashes media report

The investigation commission of Nepal castigated Kathmandu Post yesterday, hours after the newspaper ran an exclusive report that blamed the pilot of the US-Bangla plane for the crash.
Kathmandu Post report on US-Bangla crash baseless: Bangladesh expert

A Bangladeshi investigator, who is closely involved with the Nepali official investigation into the crash of US-Bangla Airlines plane, terms “baseless” the findings of a report obtained and published today by a Nepali newspaper.
Nepal newspaper report ‘fictitious’, ‘irreverent’: US Bangla

Rejecting a Nepal newspaper report over the investigation findings on the US-Bangla plane crash led by their government, the authorities of US-Bangla Airlines say the report was 'fictitious' and 'irreverent'.
US-Bangla pilot was mentally stressed, reckless: Nepali probe report

The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in March, killing 51 people, appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure and was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu.
2 held with 32 gold bars at Dhaka airport

Customs officials detain two persons including a driver of US-Bangla Airlines with 32 gold bars weighing over three kilogrammes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Minister suggests job cut of aged Biman staff

Expressing dissatisfaction over delay in luggage handling at airports, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal suggests cutting jobs of aged employees of the national carrier to gear up its operations.
Kathmandu Plane Crash: Questions over Nepal's probe

US-Bangla Airlines yesterday raised questions over the primary investigation report of the Nepalese authorities on the March 12 crash of its plane at Kathmandu airport that left 51 dead, 27 of them Bangladeshis.
US-Bangla questions Nepal’s probe into March 12 crash

US-Bangla Airlines raises question over the primary investigation report of the Nepalese authorities on the March 12 crash of its plane at Kathmandu airport that killed 51, twenty-seven of them Bangladeshis.
US-Bangla Airlines to fly to China from April 26

Private airliner US-Bangla Airlines is set to expand its wings to China from April 26 as the first ever Bangladeshi carrier to explore Chinese air.
Sadharan Bima pays US-Bangla Tk 5.74cr in insurance claims

Sadharan Bima Corporation has paid $0.7 million or Tk 5.74 crore to US-Bangla Airlines in the first instalment as compensation against the carrier's insurance claim for the aircraft that crashed in Kathmandu last month.
US-Bangla plane crash: 3 survivors released from DMCH

Three survivors of the ill-fated US-Bangla plane crash are released from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
Nepal Plane Crash Insurance: Each victim may get up to Tk 1.6cr

Families of the victims of US-Bangla plane crash are each entitled to get up to Tk 1.6 crore in compensation from the airlines and its insurers under international aviation laws.
US-Bangla plane crash survivor Shaheen dies

US-Bangla Airlines crash survivor Shaheen Bepari dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Plane crash: Survivor Kabir likely to be taken to Singapore

US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain, who is undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, might be taken to Singapore for better treatment, doctors say.
Funeral of last 3 victims held

The funeral of last three Bangladeshi victims of the US-Bangla aircraft crash was held yesterday.
Survivor Shahrin to undergo surgery at DMCH tomorrow

One of the US-Bangla plane crash survivors, Shahrin Ahmed, will undergo surgery at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital tomorrow.
Rest of Bangladeshi crash victims identified

Three among the 26 Bangladeshi unidentified victims of the ill-fated US-Bangla Airlines plane crash are identified through forensic tests.
Condition of pilot Abid Sultan’s wife unchanged

The condition of Afsana Khanam, wife of US-Bangla aircraft crash victim pilot Abid Sultan, remains unchanged as she has been kept on life support at a Dhaka hospital.
6 crash victims buried

Six crash victims of the ill-fated US-Bangla Arilines plane have been buried.
DNA profiling of 5 unidentified bodies this week

It will take about two or three days to identify those still unidentified in the crash of the ill-fated US-Bangla Airlines plane that went down and killed 51 people, including 26 Bangladeshis, last week.
Mother in coma, son receives father's body

Ever since the news of Pilot Abid Sultan's death in the US-Bangla plane crash came, all Tamjid, his only son, tried to do was make sure his mother was in a stable condition.
They come home, dead

A small dot appeared in the sky above Dhaka and it gradually got larger. The plane carrying the bodies of Bangladeshi victims of last week's crash in Kathmandu arrived around 4:00pm yesterday.
Families receive bodies of dear ones with teary eyes

Family members and relatives of 23 identified Bangladeshi victims of US-Bangla Airlines plane crash receive the bodies of their dear ones with teary eyes at the Army Stadium in Dhaka.
Son receives pilot Abid’s body at Army Stadium

Son of pilot Abid Sultan, who died during the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal, receives his father’s body at Bangladesh Army Stadium.
Injured survivor Mehedi attends janaza of loved ones

A survivor of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal’s Kathmandu attends the namaz-e-janaza of the 23 identified Bangladeshi victims at Army Stadium in Dhaka.
Bring back my son's body, victim’s mother asks PM

Mother of a victim of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal makes a heart-wrenching prayer to the prime minister through media to bring back the body of her son.
Another survivor Kabir Hossain returns

Kabir Hossain, one of the injured victims of the US-Bangla plane crash, is brought back to Dhaka.
Prithula to be buried in Mirpur graveyard

Prithula Rashid, the co-pilot of the ill-fated US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal, killing 51 persons including 28 Bangladeshis, will be buried in Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ graveyard.