PM's Flight Glitch: Seven Biman officials on fresh remand

A court here yesterday placed seven Biman officials on eight-day fresh remand each in a case filed over the glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Wajkuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order after Inspector M Mahbubul Alam of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) produced them before it, seeking 10-day remand each.

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The seven are Chief Engineer Debesh Chowdhury, Chief Engineer (quality assurance) SS Siddique, Principal Engineer (system and maintenance) Billal Hossain, engineers Shamiul Haque, Niron Chandra Bishwas, Lutfar Rahman and Zakir Hossain.

A CTTC team had arrested them from different areas in the capital on December 21.

On December 20, Director (engineering and management) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines MM Asaduzzaman filed a case against nine officials of the national flag carrier with Airport Police Station under the Special Powers Act.

The following day, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police headquarters issued an order to transfer the case to the CTTC unit.

The Biman flight carrying the PM had to make an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest on November 27 due to low oil pressure in its engine.

Three probe committees were formed by Biman, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh and the civil aviation and tourism ministry on November 28 to look into the flight trouble.

Nine Biman officials were suspended for their alleged negligence of duty.