Published on 05:05 PM, March 27, 2018

Initial report on US-Bangla plane crash by April

Says CAAB director (flight safety)

A US-Bangla Airlines plane from Dhaka with 71 people on board crashed into a football field near Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal on March 12, 2018. AFP file photo

The initial report on the tragic US-Bangla Airlines plane crash will be published by the first week of April.

Ziaul Kabir, director of flight safety of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), told this to reporters at a programme on aviation safety in Dhaka today.

Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal will publish the report by the first week of April in line with the time frame given by International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), he said.

“After getting the report, we will know actually what happened on that day,” he added.