NEW DELHI: A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Dhaka to Dubai, carrying 396 passengers and 12 crew members, made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport around midnight on Wednesday due to technical issues, officials said on Thursday.
A senior airport official confirmed that the flight was diverted after encountering difficulties midair. All passengers and crew are safe, and arrangements are being made to fly them to their destination on another aircraft later in the day.
This is not the first instance of an unscheduled landing at Nagpur airport. Earlier this year in January, two flights were diverted due to bad weather.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight (ET 680), en route to Dhaka from Addis Ababa, was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Nagpur due to adverse weather. The flight, which departed from Addis Ababa at 4.08 pm on Saturday, was scheduled to reach Dhaka on Sunday morning.
However, after hovering for some time due to low visibility, it was diverted and landed in Nagpur at around 4.30 am. The aircraft had 17 passengers on board, who were accommodated at a local hotel. After a delay of over 16 hours, the flight departed for Dhaka at 9.30 pm on Sunday.
In a similar incident, an IndiGo flight (6E 2788) from Delhi to Kolkata was also diverted to Nagpur due to poor visibility. The flight, which took off from Delhi at 2.30 am on Sunday, was scheduled to land in Kolkata at 4.30 am. However, it was rerouted to Nagpur before resuming its journey after a delay of nearly two hours. The flight finally reached Kolkata at 6.30 am.
