The suspected hijacker of a Biman Bangladesh Airline flight, who was killed in commando operation at the Shah Amanat International Airport on Sunday, was possibly carrying a fake pistol, said an official.
‘So far his gun looks like fake one. His behavioral pattern and overall things gives an impression that he was physiologically-imbalanced,’ Air Vice Marshal M Naim Hassan, the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, told New Age.
‘He had no hostage like normal hijackers...there is no evidence of gunshot in the aircraft,’ he said.
The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight with 147 passengers and 7 crew members was travelling to Dubai from Dhaka on Sunday afternoon.
The crew members of flight, BG 147, which had been scheduled to make a stopover at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, requested for emergency evacuation suspecting a mid-air hijacking bid.
Rapid Action Battalion had identified the suspected hijacker as a Md Polash Ahmed, son of Piyar Jahan Sardar from Dudhghata of Sonargaon in Dhaka from its criminal data base.
He was the boarder of seat 17A of the plane, according to a RAB text from legal and media wing.
