The Armed Police Battalion has arrested an employee of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with 68 gold bars worth Tk7.80 crore from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport last night. "The arrestee has been identified as Shafiqul Islam, 33, an aircraft mechanic working for the national flag carrier.
The captain of a Biman flight was napping in the crew rest area, leaving the cockpit of a Boeing 777-300ER technically unmanned, when a passenger had a heart attack.
Biman plane damaged: A Boeing 787 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was damaged after a bird hit an engine of the Dreamliner during landing at Sylhet Osmani International Airport this morning (August 14, 2022).
In spite of massive preparations undergoing for long, Biman Bangladesh Airlines' much-awaited maiden commercial flight on the Dhaka-Toronto route will run today with around 138 seats empty.
The authorities at the Kolkata airport have rejected Biman's claim that they did not permit the deplaning of passengers from a Biman flight left stranded at the airport for four hours on July 18 due to a technical glitch.