Agencies/Dhaka
One of the wings of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight to Hong Kong caught fire during takeoff at Shahjalal International Airport on Friday, officials said yesterday.
Authorities said no one was injured, however.
The flight left Dhaka at 10pm, although it was scheduled to leave at 2pm, they said.
Khan Mosharraf Hossain, director, Biman, said some technical glitches were found at the DC-10 aircraft moments before it was to take off. “The travel has been postponed considering passenger’s safety.”
More than 80 passengers were on board the flight.
A senior Biman official, preferring anonymity, said authorities were forced to postpone the flight as smokes were coming out of one of the engines of the plane.
Hossain said passengers of the plane had been sent to Hong Kong by another flight at 10pm.
The flag carrier currently has two 30-year-old DC aircraft in its fleet. DC-10 is a three-engine wide-body jet airliner made by McDonnell Douglas, which never came up with any aircraft after 1988.