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The aircraft carrying 171 passengers and crew, made an emergency landing at Chittagong, Shah Amanat International Airport at 1:45 pm local time. [26] No injuries and fatalities occurred as the flight crew, was able to evacuate the entire plane as emergency services rushed to the scene.
On 24 February 2019, the aircraft operating the flight, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Boeing 737-800, was hijacked 252 kilometres (157 mi) southeast of Dhaka by lone wolf terrorist Polash Ahmed. [1] The crew performed an emergency landing at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong where Ahmed was shot dead by Bangladeshi special forces.
Category of airport Category Description International: Handles international and domestic flights Domestic: Handles domestic flights STOLport: Short take off and landing airports: Defence: Military airbase Abandoned: Abandoned or unused airport Flying school: An airfield or an airstrip used to train commercial pilots
First Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Biman in Shah Amanat International Airport, Chittagong en route to Doha. In February 2017, it was announced that the airline would acquire three of their own Dash 8-Q400 which will be used to replace the current aircraft leased from Smart Aviation Company to continue operating domestic and regional flights. [223]
Shahjalal International Airport; Biman Bangladesh Airlines [5] 21: BG: BBC: BANGLADESH: Shahjalal International Airport; Shah Amanat International Airport; Osmani International Airport; Fly Dhaka Airlines [6] Shahjalal International Airport; Novoair [7] 5 [8] VQ: NVQ: NOVOAIR: Shahjalal International Airport; US-Bangla Airlines [9] 24 [10] BS ...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines was established in January 1972 as the Bangladesh national flag carrier. [1] Operations started on 4 February 1972, initially on a domestic basis and using DC-3 aircraft, with services radiating from Dhaka to Chittagong, Jessore and Sylhet. [2]
In 2010, the government changed the airport's name once again, from Zia International Airport to the present name of Shahjalal International Airport, in honour of Shah Jalal, one of the most respected Sufi saints of Bangladesh. [26] The airport's ICAO code was also changed to reflect the name change, from VGZR to VGHS.
11 August 2014: Flight 584, an MD-83, performing an international flight en route to Dhaka, Bangladesh from Muscat, Oman, carrying 148 passengers, narrowly averted a mid-air collision with a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 cargo aircraft while flying over Kolkata airspace in India due to a mistake by an air traffic controller from Kolkata Air ...