Barely two weeks after its tragic plane crash in Nepal, a Malaysia-bound flight of US-Bangla Airlines made an ‘emergency landing’ at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Saturday.
Contacted, US-Bangla Airlines GM (Marketing Support and PR) Kamrul Islam said a flight with 164 passengers on board had taken off from the airport around 9:00am, but it came back and landed at the airport at 9:15 am as its pilot received a ‘false signal’ from the aircraft.
However, he said, the flight took off from the airport for Malaysia around 11:45am after check-up.On March 12 last, at least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals, were killed as a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of Himalayan country of Nepal on March 12.Besides, a Jessore-bound US-Bangla Airlines flight made a safe emergency landing in Dhaka due to signal imbalance after take-off on March 4.
