Dhaka, Mar 18 (Just News): The US-Bangla aircraft had no technical glitch in it before taking off for Kathmandu, the chief of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) of Bangladesh said today.
Capt Salahuddin M Rahmatullah made the remark while talking to journalists before leaving for Kathmandu to join the investigation of Monday’s fatal plane crash in Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport.
Capt Rahmatullah is leading a team of Bangladeshi investigators in Nepal.
Pilot Abid Sultan of US-Bangla flight BS211 was physically fit, he said during a press briefing with the media at the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) office in Dhaka this morning.
Refuting an allegation that the US-Bangla plane was old, he said that an aircraft does not remain old or have glitches in them after its parts are changed.
Earlier on March 12, at least 51 people were killed as the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames while landing at the Kathmandu airport in Nepal.
Twenty-eight Bangladeshis, 22 Nepalese, and one Chinese citizen were killed in the deadly crash.
A joint-team of experts would soon sit to decide where the plane’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders would be decoded, Yagya Prasad Gautam, chief of the probe committee formed by the Nepalese government, told The Daily Star yesterday.
A team of investigators from Bangladesh would join the Canadian and Nepalese officials in a day or two, he added.
The Canadian and Nepalese investigators have, however, started collecting information, talking to stakeholders, and analysing CCTV footage linked to the crash, he said.
Canadian aviation experts joined the Nepalese team yesterday.
(Justnews/ys/1355hr)
