Biman flight carrying PM Hasina makes emergency landing in Turkmenistan

bdnews24.com : A flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Hungary has made emergency landing at Turkmenistan due to technical faults.Hasina leaves for Hungary to attend water summit.

The Boeing-777 aircraft landed at Ashgabat, the country’s capital, after fuel pressure began to drop in one of its engines.

All passengers of the flight are safe, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon told bdnews24.com.

“Fuel pressure was dropping in one of the engines. So the flight quickly landed at the closest airport in Ashgabat.”

 Authorities were now considering other options for reaching Hungary, where the prime minister was expected to take part in a three-day water summit in Budapest.  

The flight, BBC1011, left Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with a total 99 passengers at 9:14am.

They included a four-member cockpit crew, 20 civilian crew, four engineers and one operations manager.