DHAKA, May 11, 2019 (BSS) – Biman Bangladesh Airlines will launch an
investigation over its flight BG-060 that skidded off the runway at Yangon
International airport on Wednesday.
“We will start our investigation process from tomorrow to find out the
actual reason behind the incident,” Biman’s Chief of flight safety Captain
Shoeb Chowdhury told BSS today.
The national flag carrier formed a six-member probe body headed by Captain
Chowdhury on Thursday, the next day of the accident and asked the committee
to submit the report within 15 working days.
Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) sent its Aircraft
Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) Head Captain Salahuddin M Rahmatullah to
Yangon today for helping Myanmar authority in investigating Biman’s aircraft
crash landing incident.
As per Annex 13 of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), one
accredited representative from the airlines host country will conduct the
investigation jointly with the probe team of the country, which witnessed
accident.
The flight BG-060 from Dhaka, operated by Dash-8 Q 400 aircraft suffered an
overrun incident on landing amid rough weather at approximately 6.22 pm local
time at Yangon airport on Wednesday, wounding 19 including one infant and six
women out of 35 passengers and crews. Apart from six crews, there were 29
passengers from Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, China, Denmark, France, Britain
and Canada, the official sources said.
Among the injured Bangladeshi nationals, four passengers and six crews of
the BG-060 arrived in the capital last night by a special flight of Biman
Bangladesh airlines.
Upon arrival at HSIA, three passengers were transferred to Apollo Hospitals
while one of the pilots Shamim Nazrul was taken to Combined Military Hospital
(CMH) in the capital.
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali and Civil
Aviation and Tourism Secretary M Mohibul Haque along with high officials of
the ministry and Biman Bangladesh airlines received the injured passengers at
the airport.
“Biman is giving all-out support to the passengers and also bearing the
treatment cost,” Mahbub Ali told newsmen at the airport.
The Biman’s leased Dash-8Q aircraft, the same modeled aircraft of the US-
Bangla Airlines that suffered a deadly crash at Kathmandu last year,
sustained severe damage due to the accident.